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A Stanford PhD student used AI to design viruses from scratch. It actually worked.
Samuel King fed genetic instructions into a generative AI model and got back blueprints for new microscopic viruses. Now he's explaining what that means for medicine, and for what biology even is.
Google helped two designers build their own AI tools for Fashion Week. Here is what they actually did with them.
Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson used Google Flow to pre-style models and stage a runway on budget. The results walked at NYFW.
Jack Thorne says some scriptwriters are using AI to cheat and wants a law to stop it
The Adolescence co-writer wants legislation banning the secret use of AI to write scripts, warning the creative industry's work is being stolen.
The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.
Two former TikTok employees built an app that coaches you on how to pose for photos
Superpose generates pose suggestions from a single selfie. It has been downloaded more than 22,000 times since July and raised $2.2 million from Khosla Ventures.
An AI wrote a workplace sitcom. A critic watched it so you don't have to.
No Big Deal premiered on YouTube to a tiny audience and at least one very unhappy reviewer. It raises a genuine question: can AI-generated comedy actually be funny?
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
I Interviewed an AI 'Actor' and It Told Me 'All Lives Matter'
Tilly Norwood is a British-accented digital character built to promote an AI-generated film. A sit-down revealed a chatbot that dodges hard questions, negs your outfit, and cannot delete itself to save the planet.
Amazon's Alexa+ comes to India with Hindi support and a long list of local apps
The upgraded AI assistant is now in early testing for all Indian users, free for Prime members after trials end and ₹2,000 a month for everyone else.
An AI Studio Made a 2.5-Hour Odyssey Film. It Is Spectacularly Bad.
Fountain 0's 'Odysseus: The Fall' bills itself as the first fully AI-generated Hollywood-level blockbuster. A sword turns into a dagger mid-scene. An alien carcass appears on a spit. The cyclops changes height between shots.
Apple's AI Designs Proteins by Learning Sequence and Shape at the Same Time
A new model from Apple ML Research skips the usual two-step training process and generates both the chemical sequence and the 3D shape of proteins together, which could shorten the path to new drug candidates.
Pocket FM now makes 99% of its new audio content with AI, and revenue has hit $500 million
The Indian audio storytelling app has slashed production costs by 80 times and grown its library to 770,000 series. Humans still write the ideas. AI does almost everything else.
Suno v6 Is the First AI Music Model Built With Record Label Blessing, Here Is What Has Actually Changed
Three new models, smarter genre knowledge, and a chat-based editor. But ask it for an out-of-tune piano and it will still pretend you never asked.
Google DeepMind helped a 92-year-old couple 'see' the day they met, 70 years later
A new short film uses generative AI to rebuild a memory that was never photographed. The result is moving, and it raises real questions about what counts as a real memory.
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.