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The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under…
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it […] The post How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch appeared first on AI News.
Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data […] The post Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli appeared first on AI News.
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.  For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through…
Red Hat has launched asago, an open-source community project that aims to turn AI governance policy into production-ready deployment code. The project describes itself as an automated, auditable workflow that connects the “fragmented steps, tools, and requirements” of engineering and compliance teams. With regulation such as the EU AI Act now taking effect, Red Hat […] The post Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM back project turning AI policy into code appeared first on AI News.
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower than several competing systems. Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, which activates only part of the model for each request. Alibaba said around 95 billion parameters are active […] The post Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs appeared first on AI News.
Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained jointly on tissue tiles and clinical dialogue drawn from pathology reports. The model aggregates thousands of tile embeddings per slide into one representation, then generates text that answers diagnostic questions rather than simply classifying pixels.  Training data spans 2.3 million whole-slide […] The post PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides appeare
MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-experts improved their accuracy with AI assistance, although the improvement largely came from deferring to the model. Primary care providers showed a different pattern: they performed […] The post Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise appeared first on AI News.
Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The arrangement would require larger companies that generate revenue from offering the model as a service to reach a commercial agreement with Alibaba. The exact revenue-sharing rate has […] The post Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI appeared first on AI News.
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case
WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the “strange moment” we’re in.
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
