The company offered hackers $15,000 to crack the system. No one claimed the prize, despite people spending 3,000 hours trying ...

When the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 rocketed to fame more than a decade ago, it transformed biotechnology. Faster, cheaper, and safer than previous methods, the tool helped scientists gain insight ...

"On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a roadmap for how the company plans to release GPT-5, the long-awaited followup to 2023's GPT-4 AI language model that made huge waves in both tech and ...

Inefficient AI models guzzle energy. Then again, so do efficient ones—just for different reasons. As this frenzy to secure reliable baseload power built towards a crescendo, DeepSeek’s R1 came along ...

For most of artificial intelligence’s history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

"AlphaGeometry2 perhaps demonstrates that the two approaches—symbol manipulation and neural networks—combined are a promising path forward in the search for generalizable AI. Indeed, according to the ...

Champions aren't forever. Last week, DeepSeek AI sent shivers down the spines of investors and tech companies alike with its high-flying performance on the cheap. Now, two computer chip startups are ...

Veronika joined Our World in Data in 2023. She recently finished her PhD in computational neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and previously worked on the data journalism team at the Financial ...

Dr. Duxin Sun is the associate dean for research and the Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He serves as ...

Dr. Christian Macedonia is an adjunct professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy, former DARPA program manager, and leader of the pentagon’s Gray Team ...