Generative AI search: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

January 3, 2025
WHO Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity WHEN Now Google’s introduction of AI Overviews, powered by its Gemini language model, will alter how billions of people search the internet. And generative search may be the first step toward an AI agent that handles any question you have or task you need done. Rather than returning…

How poop could help feed the planet

January 3, 2025
A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while recycling nutrients that are crucial for agriculture but in increasingly short supply across the nation’s farmlands.  Within the 2.3-acre plant, which smells lightly of ammonia, giant rotating spindles turn…

Jobs of the future: Stool bank manager

January 3, 2025
Each year, about half a million Americans are diagnosed with Clostridioides difficile, a common bacterial infection of the large intestine. Only some patients respond to antibiotics. Infection recurs in about 20% of patients and proves fatal in about 30,000 cases annually.  But there is a highly effective, albeit unconventional, treatment: fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), which…