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Yesterday — 17 May 2024Main stream
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Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kevin Roose， Casey Newton， Rachel Cohn， Whitney Jones， Jen Poyant， Chris Wood， Dan Powell， Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano
10 May 2024 at 05:04
They gave him notes on his outfits and reassurance before a big talk, and they shared made-up gossip about each other.

© Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Illustration: Jason Allen Lee

U.S. Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research

✇NYT: Science
By: Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
7 May 2024 at 11:42
A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock.

© Karen Ducey/Getty Images

Working inside a biosafety Level 3 lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2020.

A.I. at Your Jobs + Hank Green Talks TikTok + Deepfake High School

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kevin Roose， Casey Newton， Rachel Cohn， Whitney Jones， Jen Poyant， Alyssa Moxley， Dan Powell， Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto
3 May 2024 at 05:06
A synthetic chief executive, a bot trained on employees’ personalities, and a regular duel with ChatGPT — our listeners brought us their stories.

© Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Image: Tom and Steve, via Getty Images

Some NASA Satellites Will Soon Stop Sending Data Back to Earth

✇NYT: Science
By: Raymond Zhong
3 May 2024 at 16:47
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.

© NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

Marine stratocumulus clouds over the southeastern Pacific Ocean, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in 2002.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Seeks New Ways to Engage Visitors

✇NYT: Science
By: John Hanc
27 April 2024 at 05:02
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is rolling out two new exhibition halls and making its scientists more accessible. And don’t forget the dinosaurs.

© Daniel Lozada for The New York Times

“Happy” (short for Haplocanthosaurus delfsi), a 70-foot-long, 14-foot-high sauropod, dominates the newly renovated main visitor hall at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History — and serves as the museum’s logo.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

✇NYT: Technology
By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
26 April 2024 at 10:43
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

✇NYT: Technology
By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
25 April 2024 at 00:00
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

✇NYT: Science
By: Cade Metz
22 April 2024 at 16:48
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

© Profluent Bio

Structure of the first AI-generated and open-sourced gene editor, OpenCRISPR-1.

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz
22 April 2024 at 16:48
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

© Profluent Bio

Structure of the first AI-generated and open-sourced gene editor, OpenCRISPR-1.

The Music Episode

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kevin Roose， Casey Newton， Davis Land， Rachel Cohn， Whitney Jones， Jen Poyant， Alyssa Moxley， Dan Powell， Elisheba Ittoop， Marion Lozano， Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto
19 April 2024 at 05:04
“I feel like we’ve been at the club. I need some water and some electrolytes.”

© Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Image: Marcel ter Bekke, via Getty Images

National Academy Asks Court to Strip Sackler Name From Endowment

✇NYT: Science
By: Christina Jewett
12 April 2024 at 11:10
Millions in Sackler donations sat dormant, rising in value as the opioid epidemic raged and as other institutions distanced themselves from the makers of a notorious painkiller.

© Shuran Huang for The New York Times

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine building in Washington, D.C.
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