What Would You Do With the Other Two Days? ↗
Time, income, room to build: the biggest opportunity is giving people a real choice of what to do with AI’s gains.
Emerging · Bright EditorialHealth & biology
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UW protein designers get more room to test new ideas ↗
A computing grant gives UW researchers more capacity to explore protein designs, with open tools planned and laboratory evidence still essential.
Emerging · University of Washington Institute for Protein Design / Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation / CoreWeaveA $1.8 billion biology coalition tackles AI’s missing experimental data ↗
New experiments, measurement technology and shared standards could help researchers predict how cells respond to interventions and choose better laboratory experiments.
Emerging · Biohub / U.S. Department of Energy / National Institutes of Health / Google DeepMind / Isomorphic Labs / MetaLegato puts hearing assistance in eyeglass frames. The tradeoffs matter. ↗
Legato says its U.S. launch pairs on-frame speech processing with open-ear audio and prescription-lens options. Listed prices start at $999; listening, fit and availability will determine its usefulness.
Emerging · LegatoEasing the hour before surgery. ↗
A randomized trial found that giving prostate-cancer patients AI-drafted, personalized answers before they met their surgeon lowered anxiety and reduced the surgeon’s workload.
Demonstrated · Fudan University Shanghai Cancer CenterCT scans may carry a second clue. ↗
A peer-reviewed study tested whether EAGLE, an AI system, could flag esophageal cancer on non-contrast chest CT scans people received for other reasons.
Demonstrated · Sichuan Cancer Hospital / Shanghai Institution of Pancreatic DiseaseOne implant, speech and gesture together. ↗
UCSF researchers showed that neural signals recorded through one high-density implant could support simultaneous decoding of attempted speech and communicative gestures in people with paralysis.
Emerging · University of California, San FranciscoA speech benchmark begins to listen beyond English. ↗
Hugging Face and Voice Arena added Hindi and Indian English evaluation to an open speech-recognition leaderboard with held-out/private splits and demographic and geographic test design.
Emerging · Hugging Face / Voice ArenaOne coordinate system for cells across species. ↗
Universal Cell Embedding was trained across 36 million cells, more than 1,000 cell types, and eight species to create reusable representations for cell biology.
Demonstrated · Universal Cell Embedding research collaboration / Tabula SapiensA voice in everyday life. ↗
Casey Harrell used a brain–computer interface at home to communicate and operate his computer without researchers present.
Emerging · UC Davis & BrainGate collaboratorsA laboratory lead for dry AMD, not yet a treatment. ↗
Researchers used an AI system called Robin to connect biological evidence and identify a candidate direction for dry age-related macular degeneration, then tested it in laboratory models.
Experimental · Robin research collaboration / National Eye InstituteReading more of a DNA change's consequences ↗
AlphaGenome is a unified DNA-sequence model that takes up to 1 Mb of DNA and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks, including gene expression, splicing, chromatin features, transcription-factor binding, and contact maps.
Demonstrated · Google DeepMind