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Researchers from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), MIT’s Media Lab, the Brazilian university UFABC, and the pandemic prevention non-profit SecureBio have found that leading artificial intelligence models can outperform experienced, PhD-level virologists in troubleshooting complex laboratory procedures. The findings, detailed in a new study introducing the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), demonstrate AI’s proficiency in specialized scientific tasks but also highlight serious dual-use concerns, suggesting these tools could lower the barrier for creating dangerous biological agents. The VCT benchmark, consisting of 322 questions and detailed further in its research paper, was designed specifically to measure an AI’s ability to assist…

Hable Gallery, Corsicana, TXRinne Allen Corsicana, Texas is slowly building buzz in the art world. The small town of 25,000 located about 50 miles southeast of Dallas has been steadily drawing creatives in recent years, thanks to large, historic and affordable spaces ideal for artist studios and galleries. There are more museums in this one-time oil town one would expect, a very well respected artist and writer’s residency, and as of January, another gallery that’s adding to the burgeoning art scene. Rinne Allen Hable Gallery is the brainchild of sisters Susan and Katharine Hable, Corsicana natives who flew the proverbial…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Just months after all BuyBuy Baby locations shuttered, Beyond Inc. plans to reestablish the banner’s brick-and-mortar footprint: one store, likely in Nashville, has been authorized “to be opened and tested,” Executive Chairman and Principal Executive Officer Marcus Lemonis told analysts Tuesday. Beyond struck an optimistic note despite its report the same day that Q1 net sales plunged nearly 40% year over year to $231.7 million, the result of eliminating underperforming SKUs. Its number of active customers — unique customers making a…

Last week the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) announced its Generative AI Guide, in an effort to provide much needed certainty to litigators over ‘the acceptable use of GenAI in Court disclosure’. The Guide, co-authored by a cross-firm team of litigators, is an addendum to ILTA’s successful Active Learning Best Practice Guide which is currently under review by the Master of the Rolls. It is hoped that both Guides will receive the judicial stamp of approval in the coming months. Its self-proclaimed purpose is ‘to provide practical industry guidance on the use of Generative AI tools… and approaches in preparing…

Company Logo Predictive Maintenance is the Driving Force Behind AI’s Impact on Asset Management in Oil & Gas Dublin, April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “AI in Oil & Gas – Market Share Analysis, Industry Trends & Statistics, Growth Forecasts (2025-2030)” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.The AI in Oil & Gas Market size is estimated at USD 3.54 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach USD 6.4 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 12.61% during the forecast period (2025-2030).The oil and gas industry is witnessing a surge in AI applications, spanning reservoir analysis and drilling…

Chinese internet companies, including ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding BABA, and Tencent Holding TCEHY, hoarded billions of dollars worth of Nvidia Corp NVDA H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips as the U.S. semiconductor sanctions kicked in. Nvidia tailor-made the H20 chips to comply with U.S. semiconductor sanctions. However, the Chinese companies started hoarding them in 2024, fearing potential shipment restrictions, Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday. Also Read: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Meets Japanese PM To Discuss AI’s Growing Energy Needs They aimed to snap up 1 million H20s before the latest U.S. semiconductor sanctions. The companies reportedly placed over $16 billion in orders…

Downsampling layers are crucial building blocks in CNN architectures, which help to increase the receptive field for learning high-level features and reduce the amount of memory/computation in the model. In this work, we study the generalization of the uniform downsampling layer for group equivariant architectures, e.g., G-CNNs. That is, we aim to downsample signals (feature maps) on general finite groups with anti-aliasing. This involves the following: (a) Given a finite group and a downsampling rate, we present an algorithm to form a suitable choice of subgroup. (b) Given a group and a subgroup, we study the notion of bandlimited-ness and…

Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…

One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat, or a chat? Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th. To the English speaker, Le Chat looks like a French twist on AI chat, which it conducts in English (and other languages). Yet at the jamboree President Emmanuel Macron plugged it using a soft “sh”, rendering Le Chat distinctly feline. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s 32-year-old boss, says his baby is indeed four-legged. Look carefully at…

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek returns to South Korea, now under scrutiny, after previous covert data transfers sparked privacy concerns.DeepSeek’s app pulled from South Korea in FebruaryChinese AI company DeepSeek has quietly resumed operations in South Korea after the app was suspended two months ago. South Korean officials decided to suspend it in February for serious violations of data protection laws.The South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) confirmed last week that DeepSeek is once again available for download on all popular app platforms, including Google Play and Apple’s App Store.The DeepSeek app was pulled two months ago for transferring…