A song of hype and fire: The 10 biggest AI stories of 2023
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) “Here, There, and Everywhere” isn’t just a Beatles song. It’s also a phrase that recalls the spread of generative AI into the tech…
Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky
Enlarge / The path of the Sun over Germany. (credit: Frank Niessen/IAU OAE) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not…
Adobe refuses to compromise on its bid for Figma
The CMA has a deadline of February 25th to make a final decision. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Adobe is, unsurprisingly, standing its ground after the UK’s…
EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war
Image: The Verge X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may have broken the European Union’s tough new Digital Service Act rules, regulators said as they announced the opening of…
Google’s DeepMind AI just invented 380,000 new compounds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything is made of compounds and materials, and by discovering and inventing almost 400,000 new ones this news could revolutionise …. everything. Love the…
AI just discovered another 200 CRISPR-like gene editing systems
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CRISPR is a world changing gene editing technology, and AI just found another 200 systems like it … now imagine the implications. Love the…
How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis
Image: May Mobility You probably haven’t heard of autonomous vehicle operator May Mobility because the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company is exceptionally good at avoiding the types of headlines generated by…
Look closely, and you’ll find America’s ‘climate abandonment areas’
A dog passes a pile of destroyed items that were removed from a once flooded home as residents begin the recovery process from Hurricane Harvey August 31, 2017 in Houston,…
In a world first this organism has 50 percent synthetic DNA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to being able to create organisms that are 100% synthetic DNA and that are truly artificial lifeforms. Love the Exponential…
Rumours still swirl around OpenAI’s human level AI “Q”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF OpenAI have been hiding a new development, but until they clarify what it is the rumour train is hurtling through the station. Love the…