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Why Meta is getting sued over its beauty filters

I have interviewed a lot of cosmetic surgeons and cosmetic injectors over the years who tell me that patients use the filters and photo-editing tools that are really popular on Instagram, but... Read more »

Joy Buolamwini: “We’re giving AI companies a free pass”

I can tell Buolamwini finds the cover amusing. She takes a picture of it. Times have changed a lot since 1961. In her new memoir, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s top scientist on AGI, and gene therapy to restore hearing

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company’s flagship generative AI models. Instead his new priority is to figure out how... Read more »

How scientists are being squeezed to take sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine

On October 7, Hamas—the organization in command of the Gaza Strip, and which is designated a terrorist group by the US—launched a surprise attack into Israel, during which it killed more than... Read more »

Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment

Shu also thinks the treatment can be made more potent. But already, he says, the children’s hearing improved, on average, from not hearing anything under 95 decibels (as loud as a motorcycle)... Read more »

Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI

It’s a great story—it just might not be true. Sutskever insists he bought those first GPUs online. But such myth-making is commonplace in this buzzy business. Sutskever himself is more humble: “I... Read more »

The Download: gene-editing HIV, and how to destroy PFAS

The news: The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to change the genes of human babies, to modify animals, and to treat people with sickle-cell disease. Now scientists are attempting a new... Read more »

AI-powered 6G networks will reshape digital interactions

Communication and tech companies are already planning for 6G wireless networks, even though 5G has yet to be fully rolled out globally. With improved data latency, security, reliability, and the ability to... Read more »

How heat batteries promise a cleaner future in industrial manufacturing

“Reindustrialization of the American heartland” In my conversation with Justin Briggs, a cofounder and chief operating officer at Antora, he brought up his vision for the “reindustralization of the American heartland.” He... Read more »

The race to destroy PFAS, the forever chemicals 

There’s good reason for this. Not only are PFAS everywhere around us; they’re also in us. Humans can’t break down PFAS, and our bodies struggle to clear them from our systems. Studies... Read more »