MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of cumulative research spending. If that holds up, it is the most concrete a…
Enthusiast turns a Lenovo Yoga laptop and an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT into “the world’s stupidest” desktop for local LLMs
Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something…
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet. Fast-forward a couple…
Healthcare does not need more information. It needs better ways to help clinicians identify what matters. The industry has spent years pursuing more data as the path to better outcomes, but the real challenge is turning an overwhelming volume of inform…
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qu…
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit s…
OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomb…