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The tech industry can’t agree on what open source AI means. That’s a problem.

Ultimately, the community needs to decide what it’s trying to achieve, says Zacchiroli: “Are you just following where the market is going so that they don’t essentially co-opt the term ‘open-source AI,’... Read more »

Apple researchers explore dropping “Siri” phrase & listening with AI instead

The results were promising, according to the paper. The model was able to make more accurate predictions than audio-only or text-only models, and improved further as the size of the models grew... Read more »

The Download: tracing a mysterious covid strain, and fighting dengue with drones

3 What it’s like to receive a brain-computer implantJeffrey Keefer, who has Parkinson’s, agreed to having the device temporarily applied to the surface of his brain. (WSJ $)+ Former Neuralink workers think... Read more »

How scientists traced a mysterious covid case back to six toilets

That virus likely came from a single employee who happened to be shedding an enormous quantity of a very weird variant. The researchers would desperately like to find that person. But what... Read more »

Roundtables: How China Got Ahead on EVs

How China Got Ahead on EVs Speakers: Zeyi Yang, China reporter, Amanda Silverman, Features & investigations editor, and Abby Ivory-Ganja, Sr engagement editor In the race to produce and sell more electric... Read more »

This startup wants to fight growing global dengue outbreaks with drones

“From what we’ve seen so far, our method seems to be working well,” says Machado.  This isn’t the only attempt to use drones for the dispersal of disease-fighting mosquitoes—one team ran similar... Read more »

The Download: the world’s most expensive drug, and New York City’s e-bike plan

The news: There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a Miami mansion, and more than the average person will earn... Read more »

Why New York City is testing battery swapping for e-bikes

It’s part of the city’s efforts to cut down on the risk of battery fires, some of which have been sparked by e-bike batteries charging inside apartment buildings, according to the fire... Read more »

There is a new most expensive drug in the world. Price tag: $4.25 million

But there’s no denying that super-high prices can signal that a treatment isn’t economically sustainable.  One prior title holder for most expensive drug, the gene therapy Glybera, was purchased only once before... Read more »

Building a more reliable supply chain

For companies producing just about any physical product, the many “black swan” events (catastrophic incidents that are nearly impossible to predict) of the last four years illustrate the importance of supply chain... Read more »