Such drawbacks are why a pill to alleviate sickle-cell, if developed, could sweep CRISPR from the playing field. A pill version could also resolve a brewing moral dilemma: Vertex so far has... Read more »

The vaccine outlined in the recent Nature paper is meant to be inhaled. It is a subunit vaccine, meaning it contains a portion of the pathogen. In this case, the subunit is... Read more »

OpenAI’s approach to the superalignment problem.OPENAI The researchers point out that the problem is hard to study because superhuman machines do not exist. So they used stand-ins. Instead of looking at how... Read more »

FunSearch (so called because it searches for mathematical functions, not because it’s fun) continues a streak of discoveries in fundamental math and computer science that DeepMind has made using AI. First AlphaTensor... Read more »

1 Google’s AI search tool could upend the internetPublishers in particular fear it could take a sledgehammer to their traffic. (WSJ $)+ OpenAI is partnering with a major publisher. (The Guardian)+ Chatbots could one day... Read more »

While other types of AI, such as large language models, are trained on huge repositories of data scraped from the internet, the same can’t be done with robots, because the data needs... Read more »

If you’ve tuned out news from the summit, I don’t really blame you. The quibbles over wording—“urges” vs. “notes” vs. “emphasizes”—can all start to sound like noise. But these talks are the... Read more »

The patent on CRISPR has been the fulcrum off a decade-long legal fight after the Broad Institute, a research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, snatched rights to the most important uses of the... Read more »

The carbon removal industry is just starting to take off, but some experts are warning that it’s already headed in the wrong direction.  Two former staffers of the US agency responsible for... Read more »