The Download: Chaos at OpenAI, and the spa heated by bitcoin mining
—Angela Jiang, who is working on a startup exploring the impact of AI on the labor market, tells the Wall ...
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AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do
Their findings are the latest in a growing body of research demonstrating LLMs’ powers of persuasion. The authors warn they ...
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The Download: the first personalized gene-editing drug, and Montana’s Right to Try experiment
Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby ...
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Access to experimental medical treatments is expanding across the US
Some have argued that these laws have been driven by a dislike of both drug regulation and the FDA. After ...
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Baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug
The researchers used a new version of CRISPR technology, called base editing, that can replace a single letter of DNA ...
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Google DeepMind’s new AI agent uses large language models to crack real-world problems
“You can see it as a sort of super coding agent,” says Pushmeet Kohli, a vice president at Google DeepMind ...
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The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
The idea that individuals have a right to access experimental treatments has in fact failed in US courts in the ...
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This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining
“I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or water to cool their ...
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A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
“We’ve been really pushing on ‘thinking,’” says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such models, which are built ...
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The State Department office countering foreign disinformation is being eliminated, officials say
The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public ...
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