Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended ...

A smarter way to build vaccines: Scientists harness AI to target emerging alphaviruses

A team of scientists at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), led by Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D., and Peter McCaffrey, MD ...

AI-generated explicit photos are flooding schools. Not much is being done to stem the tide.

For as little as $4.99, teenagers are uploading photos of their classmates’ faces to “nudify” sites to generate so-called ...

Anthropic’s New Powerful Mythos Model Has Cybersecurity Experts Worried

Anthropic says it is testing a powerful new AI model that can spot serious weaknesses in software, and releasing it as part ...