Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options
Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Bluesky: @rjcc , @karissabe , @nochoicebutaction , and...
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...
Few US lawmakers are taking action to regulate AI, as many struggle to understand the technology and its dangers, unlike the EU which proposed AI rules in 2021
Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said. Tweets: @reptedlieu , @neilturkewitz , @geomblog , @cademetz , @ceciliakang , @pstasi...
How Dutch privacy negotiators, empowered by GDPR, have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others, as the Netherlands punches above its weight
Natasha Singer / New York Times : Tweets: @avilarenata , @coolshannes , @juliesbrill , and @jason_kint Tweets: Renata Avila / @avilarenata : Europe could/must build its own sovereign, decentralised, ...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
China opened corruption probes in July 2022 into some top executives in its semiconductor industry, as it rethinks its gold rush approach to chip self-reliance
Wearing a laboratory coat, China's top leader, Xi Jinping, inspected a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, a national semiconductor company based in Wuhan. Tweets: @brianmannadk , @liyu...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
and lining their pockets — at the expense of our rights and livelihoods.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Gladstein / @gladstein : “Bitcoiners aren't supposed to trust government. After all, one of B...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government. Tweets: @timmuth , @fredbenenson , @schwarz , @stalfel , @gladstein , @nytopin...
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...