The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers Read more…
Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider, recently launched a large language model tool that it is encouraging doctors and clinicians to use for translation, sensitive patient data, and has suggested it can be used for diagnostic purposes, 404 Media has learned. Northwell Health has more than 85,000 employees. Read more…
Their method accomplishes this by artificially bringing together two proteins in such a way that the new compound switches on a set of cell death genes… One of these proteins, BCL6, when mutated, drives the blood cancer known as diffuse large cell B-cell lymphoma… [It] sits on DNA near apoptosis-promoting Read more…
Those who have followed SpaceX’s trajectory will know hop tests are a vital stepping stone for a reusable rocket program, as they allow engineers to test their rocket’s landing capabilities. Impressively, no private company or space agency in Europe had ever performed a rocket hop test before. Essentially, a group Read more…
Plans by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to build an AI data centre in the US that runs on nuclear power were thwarted in part because a rare species of bee was discovered on land earmarked for the project, according to people familiar with the matter. Zuckerberg had planned to strike a Read more…
One technology critical to fighting climate change is lagging, thanks to a combination of high interest rates, rising costs, misinformation and the cycle of home construction. Adoption of heat pumps, one of the primary ways to cut emissions from buildings, has slowed in the United States and stalled in Europe, Read more…
GM’s president of global markets says their EV portfolio is growing faster than the market, because we have an all-electric vehicle for just about everybody, no matter what they like to drive. The headline at Barrons? “Don’t Look Now, but GM’s EV Sales Are on Fire.” GM delivered almost 32,000 Read more…