“It brings accountability to the industry,” says Raquel Urtesan, Waabi’s firebrand founder and CEO (who is also a professor at the University of Toronto): “There are no more excuses.” After quitting Uber,... Read more »

What’s new: A new pair of AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and less likely to cause harm. The benchmarks evaluate AI systems based... Read more »

“We have been sort of stuck with outdated notions of what fairness and bias means for a long time,” says Divya Siddarth, founder and executive director of the Collective Intelligence Project, who... Read more »

First, let’s get the pesky business of defining AGI out of the way. In practice, it’s a deeply hazy and changeable term shaped by the researchers or companies set on building the... Read more »

“The US won the internet and the US should win crypto.” —Tyler Winklevoss, who runs crypto exchange Gemini with his twin brother Cameron, could not be happier with the outcome of Donald... Read more »

So why are we not seeing an explosion in ATT investment and deployment in the US? Because despite their potential to unlock 21st-century technology, the 20th-century structure of the nation’s electricity markets... Read more »

This week saw the release of some fascinating news about some very furry rodents—so-called “woolly mice”—created as part of an experiment to explore how we might one day resurrect the woolly mammoth.... Read more »

To be sure, there is a long way to go. The mice Colossal created include several genetic changes previously known to make mice furry or long-haired. That is, the changes were mammoth-like,... Read more »

The city of Odense, in Denmark, is best known as the site where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was murdered during the 11th century. Today, Odense it’s also home to more... Read more »