Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has created a tool to predict the structure of hundreds of millions of proteins using artificial intelligence. Researchers say it promises to deepen scientists’ understanding of biology, and perhaps speed the discovery of new drugs. Meta’s research arm, Meta AI, used the new AI-based computer Read more…
The UK government is to invest 900 million pounds in a cutting-edge supercomputer as part of an artificial intelligence strategy that includes ensuring the country can build its own “BritGPT”. The treasury outlined plans to spend around 900 million pounds on building an exascale computer, which would be several times Read more…
Earlier this week, OpenAI released GPT-4, its latest AI language model that is “more creative and collaborative than ever before.” According to Gizmodo, “GPT-4 is so good at its job, in fact, that it reportedly convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve Read more…
Convincing older British workers to stay in their jobs will cost the UK Treasury 75,000 pounds ($90,000) per person in tax breaks for some of the country’s wealthiest savers, analysis of Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s budget shows. In his budget speech on Wednesday Hunt scrapped the lifetime allowance Read more…
Logistics startup Zipline unveiled its next-generation delivery drone, dubbed the Platform 2 or P2 Zip. The new drone is “capable of carrying up to eight pounds worth of cargo within a ten-mile radius, and can land a package on a space as small as a table or doorstep.” That number Read more…
South Korea’s government has been forced to rethink a planned rise in working hours after a backlash from younger people who said the move would destroy their work-life balance and put their health at risk. The government had intended to raise the maximum weekly working time to 69 hours after Read more…
Americans lost more than $10 billion to online scammers last year, new government data show, the highest level since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began tracking losses in 2000. The FBI said its Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, recorded more than 800,000 complaints in 2022, or more than 2,000 Read more…