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Almost as soon as researchers started exploring the capabilities of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, they recognized its potential use in targeted gene editing. But the intervening decades have seen slow progress as people worked to determine how to do so in a way that would be safe for use in humans. It was only a little over two years ago, decades after CRISPR’s discovery, that the FDA approved the first CRISPR-based therapy, for sickle-cell anemia. Now, following up on […]

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Amid customer dissatisfaction around Broadcom’s VMware takeover, rivals have been trying to lure customers from the leading virtualization firm. One of VMware’s biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers. Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix’s .NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that “about 30,000 customers” have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to customer disapproval over Broadcom’s VMware strategy, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, […]

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In the 1970s, the late Jane Goodall observed a community of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, breaking into two factions; the males in one group ended up killing all the males in the rival group over the next four years, along with one female chimp. But the case was considered an anomaly, although there is genetic evidence suggesting this kind of split is a rare event occurring every 500 years or so. Now researchers have observed the largest known […]

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Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re covering what happens when AI labs sit across the table from governments, why most AI-generated writing still sounds the same (and how to fix it), and whether open models like Gemma 4 are ready to be ranked at all. We also cover: A modular framework that goes from raw text to a knowledge graph in one command. The full eight-layer architectural […]

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On the home stretch of their nine-day mission, the four astronauts flying aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft are just beginning to reflect on their experience of flying beyond the Moon. Their memories of Monday’s encounter with the Moon are still fresh as they return to Earth, heading for reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening. “I’m actually getting chills right now just thinking about it. My palms are sweating,” said Reid Wiseman, commander of the Artemis […]

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A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm’s request to expedite the case and will hold oral arguments on May 19. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was issued by a panel of three judges appointed by Republicans, including Trump appointees Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao. Katsas […]

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