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Agentic AI is a larger systems problem, not just one of inference. The majority of existing agentic AI harnesses are limited and do not measure overall system performance. Plan capacity is done... Read more »

Some vendors are starting to tackle this challenge. Belcher points to solutions like Cytiva’s Image Integrity Checker, for instance, which uses secure hash algorithms—the same technology used in blockchain—to detect whether scientific... Read more »

In new research, one team has been able to supercool the kidneys of pigs—animals whose organs are of a similar size to human ones—and preserve them for days. The kidneys survived being... Read more »

But now, scientists have come up with a device that allows organs to be cooled to -4 °C (25 °F) without forming any ice. They’ve tested it with pig organs and shown... Read more »

Supercooled kidneys To test their device, Powell Palm and his colleagues first removed single kidneys from pigs. The organs were flushed with the same commonly used solution to remove the blood, just... Read more »

AI-assisted design is a growing part of how biologic drug candidates are developed, and companies like AstraZeneca are actively building its engineering teams to push this further. “Everything we do, whether it’s... Read more »

2 Why the OpenAI hack is the scariest AI mishap yetAI’s capabilities seem to be starting to outpace our current ability to control them. (The Economist $)+ Hugging Face had to turn to... Read more »

Some experts say this isn’t unusual for a new infrastructure project. Other power lines have seen similar startup challenges, and the equipment hasn’t really been fully tested until it’s in operation, Normand... Read more »