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Two companies aiming to make better babies by tweaking the DNA of embryos were invited to talk about the future of the technology at SynBioBeta, a major gathering of the biotech world scheduled for earlier this month in San Jose, Calif. As the discussion’s moderator, I felt eager to hear more from them about their science and how they might commercialize it. The only problem: By the time the conference rolled around, both companies weren’t in business anymore.
One of the now defunct embryo editing companie
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How about that? SpaceX’s AI unit is rolling out some AI products of value to businesses. On Wednesday, SpaceXAI—as the unit is called—and its soon-to-be subsidiary Cursor jointly introduced Grok 4.5, a model “built for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.” A week ago, SpaceX introduced a “Voice Agent Builder” enabling small businesses to set up an AI that can talk on the phone and handle customer service calls, among... Read more ›
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Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion, in what could be its last round before going public. To seal the deal, founder Marc Lore has been offering investors sweeteners—and putting his own money in the pot. The company has arranged to give investors in the financing extra shares if Wonder’s stock price in an initial... Read more ›
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Wonder, which owns GrubHub and Blue Apron, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday. To entice investors, Wonder has arranged to give backers of the financing extra shares if the restaurant and delivery startup’s stock price in ... Read more ›
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Anthropic on Thursday reiterated its policy that access to it Claude models and coding tools is not permitted in China, responding to the Chinese government’s recent warning about a security backdoor in Claude Code. The U.S. company said what Beijing’s warning described as a hidden backdoor is ... Read more ›
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Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy. But a small startup that emerged from stealth mode earlier this year says it recently got an AI model running on an iPhone bigger than any previous mobile model. The startup, PrismML, said it has shrunk down Qwen 3.6, an open-source large language model... Read more ›
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Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Remaining faculty say the brain drain is threatening the development of open source AI models in the West.So far this year, at least 22 professors and researchers have taken leave or stepped back from their roles at Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Virginia and the University of Southern California to work at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms said it is making its newest AI model available to developers through an application programming interface, looking to sell access to its AI for the first time after pivoting away from open source AI. Meta on Thursday said the new model, Muse Spark 1.1, improves on the previous ... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust, the group charged with appointing new board members for the company, named former chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as its fourth member on Thursday. Bernanke’s naming fills a key opening on the trust, which still has one of five seats ... Read more ›
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OpenAI, as part of its effort to attract more business customers, announced a new agent—called ChatGPT Work—which taps into corporate data to automate the creation of spreadsheets and presentations, and can also handle more complex tasks like updating financial forecasts and conducting ... Read more ›
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