The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention

Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and ...
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The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will ...
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We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person ...
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OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science

Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many ...
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What to expect from Neuralink in 2025

Robot arm Late last year, Neuralink opened a companion study through which it says some of its existing implant volunteers ...
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Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages

“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech ...
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What’s next for nuclear power

Much of the funding and industrial activity in advanced reactors is centered in the US, where several companies are close ...
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Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse

For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid, ...
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Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media

This article first appeared in The Debrief, MIT Technology Review’s weekly newsletter from our editor in chief Mat Honan. To receive it ...
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