Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
Why Digital Burnout Is Now The ‘Default State’ Of Being Online
There will always be another notification. (© fotoAI – stock.adobe.com) Today’s algorithms prioritize engagement, but what about well-being?…
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…
The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing…
SAGPEK: fast and flexible approach to identify genotypes of Sanger sequencing data | BMC Bioinformatics
Software architecture SAGPEK mainly processes Sanger sequencing results of two kinds of samples: diploids such as humans and…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the…
GeneRiskCalc: a web-based tool for genetic risk association analysis in case–control studies | BMC Bioinformatics
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium The HWE is a key principle in population genetics, stating that allele and genotype frequencies remain…
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the Office of…
GenMasterTable: a user-friendly desktop application for filtering, summarising, and visualising large-scale annotated genetic variants | BMC Bioinformatics
GenMasterTable is a standalone, cross-platform desktop application developed in Python to facilitate scalable genomic data analysis. It integrates…
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But…
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives…