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How to bail on plans without losing friends

It’s the act that’s defined a generation, an experience so common it’s become memeified: canceling plans. Bailing is a litmus test of sorts; who and what events you back out of says a lot about you as a person. Are you the type who commits and only bails when absolutely necessary? Or are you a […]

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Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide

This essay originally appeared in The Guardian . I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money.

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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which…

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Elix and University of Vienna Aim to Advance Drug Discovery Using AI

Elix and the University of Vienna will partner to bridge the gap between advanced structural biology and artificial intelligence. By integrating AI’s predictive power with experimental atomic-resolution data, the project seeks to bypass the limitations of traditional drug discovery, delivering new therapeutic insights for complex…

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In an era defined by AI, can work still be measured by the clock?

Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so. Yet something is disrupting the clock she races against.

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