Technology

DARPA launches two-year competition to build AI-powered cyber defenses

August 9, 2023
As a part of an ongoing White House initiative to make software more secure, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to launch a two-year contest, the AI Cyber Challenge, that’ll task competitors with identifying and fixing software vulnerabilities using AI. In collaboration with AI startups Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as Microsoft and […]

Merging physical and digital tools to build resilient supply chains

August 9, 2023
Organizations are building resilient supply chains with a “phygital” approach, a blend of digital and physical tools. In recent years, the global supply chain has been disrupted due to the covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical volatility, overwhelmed legacy systems, and labor shortages. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), an industrial advocacy group, warns the disruption isn’t over—NAM’s…

Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online

August 9, 2023
In late May, the Pentagon appeared to be on fire.  A few miles away, White House aides and reporters scrambled to figure out whether a viral online image of the exploding building was in fact real.  It wasn’t. It was AI-generated. Yet government officials, journalists, and tech companies were unable to take action before the…

The Download: the promise of stem cell treatments, and China’s screen time crackdown

August 9, 2023
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. After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment In 1998, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a breakthrough for biology, since these cells…

Deepset secures $30M to expand its LLM-focused MLOps offerings

August 9, 2023
Deepset, a platform for building enterprise apps powered by large language models akin to ChatGPT, today announced that it raised $30 million in a funding round led by Balderton Capital with participation from GV and Harpoon Ventures. The proceeds will be put toward expanding Deepset’s products and services and growing its team from around 50 […]

After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment

August 9, 2023
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough for biology, since these cells are the starting point for human bodies and have the capacity to turn into any other type of cell—heart cells, neurons, you name it. National Geographic would later summarize the…