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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What was particularly astonishing to me was that after all these efforts, the fund still remains incredibly obscure. The total amount in the fund ($17.3 million)...
“CDR cannot succeed at restorative and reparative goals if it is controlled by the same forces that created the problems it is trying to solve,” write...
The latest round of EU negotiations has introduced a two-tier approach in which foundation models are, at least in part, sorted on the basis of the...
When you think of Big Tech these days, Yahoo is probably not top of mind. But for Chinese dissident Xu Wanping, the company still looms large—and...