
Innovation Through Intelligence
Comments on Evo 2, an AI-driven "genomic foundation model" based on work from Arc Institute, NVIDIA, Stanford University,UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco and AI co-scientist from Google in collaboration with Imperial College and Stanford University.
Comments from U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Stanford Provost Jenny Martinez, Harvard President Alan Garber and White House Spokesperson Kush Desai
Comments from the World Health Organization, U.S. Center for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Agriculture and others.
Comments from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Meta, Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chair of Google, Nvidia and President Trump.
Comments from the World Economic Forum’s 'Future of Jobs Survey,' conducted in late 2024, which includes feedback from over 1,000 global employers that collectively employ more than 14.1 million workers across 22 industries.
Comments on the Los Angeles wildfires that have burned over 38,000 acres from JP Morgan, Accuweather and the California FAIR Plan.
Comments from the study 'Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation' (MIT, November 2024) examining AI's impact on 1,018 scientists at a leading U.S. materials science R&D lab over a 49-month period.
Comments from studies by Stanford Medicine and University College London on AI use in healthcare.
Comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman from his blog post “The Intelligence Age” (Sept. 23, 2024) :
Comments on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as leads of a Department of Government Efficiency project to “dismantle government bureaucracy”, cutting $2 trillion from the U.S. Federal government budget and more.
Comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report ”An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034” (June 2024).
As the 2024 U.S. Presidential election approaches, financial markets may encounter turbulence.
Comments from U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the White House, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.
Last week, Amazon signed three new agreements to support the development of nuclear energy projects including enabling the construction of several new Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). and Google signed and agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple SMRs developed by Kairos Power.
Comments on using Google's "experimental" NotebookLM tool to create audio content from the "Lifting the Fog: On Budgets, Civic Innovation, Silos and more" report.
Comments on the Constellation Energy, Microsoft deal at Three Mile Island; research from Goldman Saks and more.
Comments on AI from CEO James Dimon, their efforts in wealth and asset management, along with the University of Chicago study “Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models.”
Comments from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Disease Control and others.
Comments by Max Tegmar (physicist and AI researcher at MiT),AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li (Stanford professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute), Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad (computer scientist and professor at Northeastern University), Marina Danilevsky (senior research scientist at IBM.)
Last week, the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury released "Lifting the Fog" On Budgets, Innovation, Silos, and More", that identifies the need to improve budget oversight, increase interdepartmental cooperation and provide clarity on the government’s function and structure.
Comments from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Vincent Strubel, director general of ANSSI (France’s cybersecurity agency), and efforts about surveillance systems from Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision, Wintics
Comments from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and The Economist article “Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
Comments from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos (NY Times interview) and Dawn Ostroff, board member of Paramount Global and Mattel, in her article “Memo to Hollywood: AI Is a Threat — And an Opportunity”
Comments on Wayve, a UK based startup, and its $1 billion series C funding from Softbank, Microsoft, Nvidia and others to develop artificial intelligence technologies that help autonomous vehicles
Last week, Pew Research Center released “Americans’ Views of Technology Companies” with comments on Social Media.
Last week, Profluent, a start-up based in Berkeley, CA, announced the release of an AI-created gene editor and its uses its OpenCRISPR uses “AI that learned from massive scale sequence and biological context to generate millions of diverse CRISPR-like proteins