Here’s the latest company planning for gene-edited babies
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the...
Large reasoning models almost certainly can think
Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by...
Moving past speculation: How deterministic CPUs deliver predictable AI performance
For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a...
Developers beware: Google’s Gemma model controversy exposes model lifecycle risks
The recent controversy surrounding Google’s Gemma model has once again highlighted the dangers of using developer test models and the fleeting nature of model...
Meet Denario, the AI ‘research assistant’ that is already getting its own papers published
An international team of researchers has released an artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines —...
This startup wants to clean up the copper industry
Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, Still Bright, think they have a better, cleaner way to...
The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper
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.
Here’s the latest company...