When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform.…
Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with dr…
AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as …
This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study.…
Later this year, the US company Reflect Orbital plans to launch a test…
The goal is to test the feasibility of the company’s plans to launch u…
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators.…
Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam A…
Upon closer inspection, they are all calling for the same thing: a vie…
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.…
“There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a…
Reuel is co-lead of a new research project, called the AI Observatory,…
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured from Earth, surpassing the distance set by Apollo 13 in 1972 by some 4,000 miles.…
While no space mission can live up to the historic touchdown of Apollo…
It drew tens of millions of viewers and inspired outpourings of “moon …
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America.…
There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined under…
This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat for living microbes that…