This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet Europe’s surprising best-selling...
1 Here’s what’s lurking inside Meta’s AI databaseA whole lot of Shakespeare, erotica, and, err, horror written for children. (The Atlantic $)+ Meta’s latest AI model...
The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its flagship large language model in a major update. You can have a spoken conversation...
On the whole, typical vaccines prime the immune system to respond. But scientists are also working on “inverse vaccines” that teach the immune system to stand...
August 2022 We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A Disney director tried—and...
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are cofounders and co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Cells are key to understanding disease—yet so much about them remains unknown....
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...
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...
Yatish Turakhia, then a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz’s Genomics Institute, helped develop a software tool called UShER to track these covid variants by placing them,...