November 13, 2024

Unlocking the mysteries of complex biological systems with agentic AI

The complexity of biology has long been a double-edged sword for scientific and medical progress. On one hand, the intricacy of systems (like the human immune response) offers countless opportunities for breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare. On the other hand, that very complexity has often stymied researchers, leaving some of the most significant medical challenges—like…

The Download: AI for good, and China’s shrinking internet

June 4, 2024
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. What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit —Melissa Heikkilä Last week, Geneva played host to the UN’s AI for Good Summit. The summit’s big focus was how AI can be…

Storyblok raises $80M to bring more AI into its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people

June 4, 2024

If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: print and traditional media first got augmented by websites, and now websites are being augmented by an exponential landscape of apps, social media platforms, new kinds of  screens, and content created not by humans, but by, artificial intelligence. […]

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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool

June 4, 2024

Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users.  Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping […]

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What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit

June 4, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Greetings from Switzerland! I’ve just come back from Geneva, which last week hosted the UN’s AI for Good Summit, organized by the International Telecommunication Union. The summit’s big focus was how AI can…