I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work
The flash from my iPhone camera illuminates my dirty socks and underwear as I hold each item up…
Pokémon Go players have unknowingly been helping to train delivery robots
Published on 18/03/2026 – 8:41 GMT+1 Players chasing down a rare Snorlax or trying to pin a Pikachu…
‘The Karpathy Loop’: 700 experiments, 2 days, and a glimpse of where AI is heading
Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI…
the AI database now includes protein pairing
AlphaFold is now capable of predicting homodimeric complexes, including those formed by the transcription elongation factor Eaf, whose…
Insulin resistance prediction from wearables and routine blood biomarkers
Remote recruitment of participants through the GHS platform The study protocol was approved by Advarra (IRB no. Pro00074093).…
Earth’s Spin Is Slowing at a Pace Not Seen in Millions of Years—and You Can Guess Why
It often feels like the world is spinning faster and faster, just out of control these days, right?…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced…
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell…
Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
Nguyen, E. et al. Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo. Science 386, eado9336…
these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or…
Confounding factors and biases abound when predicting molecular biomarkers from histological images
Data and study design We analysed the limitations of existing ML approaches for predicting molecular biomarkers (for example,…
five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots
In the early 1980s, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as “a bicycle for our minds”. He…