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How AI can help us understand how cells work—and help cure diseases

Already, research teams have made discoveries using these well-curated data sets. One discovered that the broken gene linked to cystic fibrosis is expressed by a type of cell scientists had never come... Read more »

Meet the next generation of AI superstars

This year we’ve seen tech companies racing to release their hottest new AI systems, and often neglecting safety and ethics. The AI scientists on this year’s innovators list are more aware than ever... Read more »

Deepfakes of Chinese influencers are livestreaming 24/7

Video of an AI streamer generated by Silicon Intelligence. SILICON INTELLIGENCE Once the avatar is generated, its mouth and body move in time with the scripted audio. While the scripts were once... Read more »

The Download: what’s next for AI, and fighting digital censorship

DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation he had with our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, he... Read more »

How new tech is helping people circumvent digital authoritarianism

It also relates to a recent scoop about a new Google product that’s designed to make it easier for developers to build censorship-resistant apps. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this... Read more »

Migrating to the cloud transforms business

Laurel: Well, let’s start off. So, what has BP’s move to the cloud been like? From your perspectives, what are the major benefits and challenges with cloud transformation? Keisha: Yeah, so our... Read more »

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.

I’ve always been interested in power, politics, and so on. You know, human rights principles are basically trade-offs, a constant ongoing negotiation between all these different conflicting tensions. I could see that... Read more »

The Download: talking driverless cars, and updated covid vaccines

The news: Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate its vehicles, asking them questions about their driving decisions—and getting answers back thanks to a chatbot. How it works: The idea is to... Read more »

AI can help screen for cancer—but there’s a catch

Why this might be isn’t totally clear. It could be because of design flaws in the study. The trials the authors included in their analysis might not have followed participants long enough... Read more »

Who benefits most from the new covid vaccines?

“I would not recommend anything to others that I wouldn’t recommend for my own family,” wrote CDC director Mandy Cohen in an op-ed on Wednesday. “My 9- and 11-year-old daughters, my husband,... Read more »