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The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body.

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

Several AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad...

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The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body.

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

Several AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad...

The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

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 AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers.

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode , rival Anthropic is making its move to make C...

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company .

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuatio...

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Sponsored In partnership with AstraZeneca Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge.

The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags

On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of...

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company’s massive AI spending isn’t worth the money.

How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions

News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists...

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly buildin...