AI & ML

The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperrealistic looking ads promise medical miracles, and appear to be targeting older women, while making misleading health claims for a profit.

US specialist venture firm Dimension Capital raises $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines

Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups

Your toaster may ‘talk’ to your fridge, they may even talk to you, but we’d do well to remember that we’re defined by our human communities, not our electronic ones

Europe needs to avoid relying on an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities, says Henna Virkkunen

Increased power costs add to challenges facing tech giant’s AI ambition amid high spending and mounting debt

Drones capable of spraying water and fire retardants have been practicing how to snuff out wildfires early in California and Alaska this summer—demonstrating a possible rapid-response tool for firefighting as climate change transforms wildfire season into a nearly year-round risk for much of the United States. Most drones are significantly smaller than crewed aircraft and

This week on “Hard Fork,” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton talk with Erik Brynjolfsson, an economics professor and A.I. expert, about frontier A.I. labs hiring economists from academic departments —and what his poaching price would be.

Apple’s recent lawsuit against OpenAI is filled with allegations, one of which accuses OpenAI of stealing the technique for a secret metal-finishing process Apple uses.

“These companies hate each other.” The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss the constant hatred felt between Anthropic and OpenAI and what the companies have done to mitigate it.