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Mar 19, 2024

Researchers develop AI foundation models to advance pathology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Foundation models, advanced artificial intelligence systems trained on large-scale datasets, hold the potential to provide unprecedented advancements for the medical field. In computational pathology (CPath), these models may excel in diagnostic accuracy, prognostic insights, and predicting therapeutic responses.

Mar 19, 2024

Circulating tumor DNA levels predict outcomes for gastroesophageal cancer treated with immunotherapy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Monitoring levels of DNA shed by tumors and circulating in the bloodstream could help doctors accurately assess how gastroesophageal cancers are responding to treatment, and potentially predict future prognosis, suggests a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Mar 19, 2024

Nvidia, Amazon Tease 6x Performance Boost to Upcoming Supercomputer

Posted by in category: supercomputing

The companies revise the Project Ceiba supercomputer to have six times more computing power than originally envisioned thanks to Nvidia’s new Blackwell GPU architecture.

Mar 19, 2024

New material traps CO2 — and turns it into baking soda

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

A new material for direct air capture systems turns trapped carbon into baking soda when introduced to seawater.

Mar 19, 2024

A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque told The Financial Times it plans to start work on a site in Wyoming in June even if it hasn’t got a permit by then.

Mar 19, 2024

The maker of Ozempic is funding a new Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

The owner of Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker that gave the world Ozempic and Wegovy, is funding a new supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology with a key aim of discovering new medicines and treatments.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded France’s Eviden a contract to build what the computing company says will be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, able to process vast amounts of data using AI.

It should provide “unprecedented potential to accelerate groundbreaking scientific discoveries in areas such as drug discovery, disease diagnosis and treatment,” Cédric Bourrasset, Eviden’s head of quantum computing, said in a statement.

Mar 19, 2024

OpenAI Says Sora Video Generator May Allow Nudity

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI isn’t ruling out that its forthcoming Sora video generator might create nudity — and that could be bad news for the company.

In a sweeping interview with the Wall Street Journal about the forthcoming tool, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the company hasn’t yet figured out the whole nudity thing.

“I’m not sure,” Murati told the WSJ’s reporters when asked about nudity. “You can imagine that there are creative settings in which artists might want to have more control over that. Right now we are working with artists, creators from different fields to figure out what’s useful, what level of flexibility the tool [should] provide.”

Mar 19, 2024

Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk — which is somehow attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base.

Worse yet, according to a new analysis by Stanford and Georgetown University researchers, first spotted by 404 Media, scammers and spammers are using this lowbrow content to grow their audiences on Facebook.

Even with the proliferation of AI image generators, the novelty has clearly yet to wear off for users on the largest social media network, a veritable social media dinosaur.

Mar 19, 2024

Cracking the quantum code: Simulations track entangled quarks

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Today, the word “quantum” is everywhere—in company names, movie titles, even theaters. But at its core, the concept of a quantum—the tiniest, discrete amount of something—was first developed to explain the behavior of the smallest bits of matter and energy.

Mar 19, 2024

Molecular crystal motors move like microbes when exposed to light

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

At first glance, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi’s molecular motors look like the microscopic worms you’d see in a drop of pond water. But these wriggling ribbons are not alive; they’re devices made from crystallized molecules that perform coordinated movements when exposed to light. With continued development, Al-Kaysi and colleagues say, their tiny machines could be used by physicians as drug-delivery robots or engineered into arrays that direct the flow of water around submarines.