The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.Read More
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash,...
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.
How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs
Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize...
It has been a grim few months for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. There had been some excitement when, a couple of years ago, a gene therapy for the disorder was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the first time. That drug, Elevidys, has now been...
Nonprofits are striving to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change.
The Data Foundation, a Washington, DC, nonprofit...