Plus: China-linked hackers have hit Taiwan in an “unprecedented” AI attack 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 ...

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Senior reporter Eileen Guo has been following an idea that moved from the fringes of the right-wing Internet to drive Trump policy.

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AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...

At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era.

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For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under ...

It’s a dramatic illustration of just how good AI models have gotten at hacking: In order to get into Hugging Face’s databases ...