Scientists demonstrated a promising step toward using a person’s own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers at America’s National Institutes of Health (or NIH). But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — “the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs…” The treatment approach is still Read more…
Web crawlers collecting training data for AI models are overwhelming Wikipedia’s infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged 50% since January, primarily from automated programs scraping Wikimedia Commons’ 144 million openly licensed media files. This unprecedented Read more…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious plan to create 1 million hectares of new rice farms in eastern Merauke Regency faces strong criticism from scientists who have warned it will fail due to unsuitable soils and climate. Military “food brigades” are currently guarding bulldozers clearing swampy forests in Indonesian New Guinea Read more…
Hackers targeting Australia’s major pension funds in a series of coordinated attacks have stolen savings from some members at the biggest fund, Reuters is reporting, citing a source, and compromised more than 20,000 accounts. National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a statement she was aware of “cyber criminals” Read more…
The wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe — which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Read more…
AI is projected to reach $4.8 trillion in market value by 2033, but the technology’s benefits remain highly concentrated, according to the U.N. Trade and Development agency. In a report released on Thursday, UNCTAD said the AI market cap would roughly equate to the size of Germany’s economy, with the Read more…
Researchers at DeepMind have … released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe Read more…