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The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI

There’s a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy right now. Should we be pessimistic? Optimistic? Or is the situation too nuanced for that? Hopefully,... Read more »

What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs

But this week we also learned that, disappointingly, GLP-1 drugs don’t seem to help people with Alzheimer’s disease. And that people who stop taking the drugs when they become pregnant can experience potentially... Read more »

The Download: the fossil fuel elephant in the room, and better tests for endometriosis

Over the past few weeks in Belem, Brazil, attendees of this year’s UN climate talks dealt with oppressive heat and flooding, and at one point a literal fire broke out, delaying negotiations.... Read more »

This year’s UN climate talks avoided fossil fuels, again

At one point about 80 countries, a little under half of those present, demanded a concrete plan to move away from fossil fuels. But oil producers like Saudi Arabia were insistent that... Read more »

Moving toward LessOps with VMware-to-cloud migrations

For many organizations, the path forward involves adopting a LessOps model, an operational strategy that makes hybrid environments manageable without increasing headcount. This operational philosophy minimizes human intervention through extensive automation and... Read more »

The Download: AI and the economy, and slop for the masses

There’s a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy right now. Should we be pessimistic? Optimistic? Or is the situation too nuanced for that? Hopefully,... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: The people can’t get enough of AI slop

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.... Read more »

The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns

In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret project to predict the structures of proteins.... Read more »

Aligning VMware migration with business continuity

Mark Vaughn, senior director of the virtualization practice at Presidio, has witnessed the trend firsthand. “When I speak at conferences, I’ll ask the room, ‘How many people have been impacted?’ For disaster... Read more »

What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate

Still, Verba’s team uses AlphaFold (both 2 and 3, because they have different strengths, he says) to run virtual versions of their experiments before running them in the lab. Using AlphaFold’s results,... Read more »