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Startups flush with cash are spinning up AI-assisted laboratories with the hope of finding new materials much faster.

Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning ...

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Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

Much of Lucas’s work involves creatively applying the law to new fact patterns. “Right now, I don’t think very much of the work that litigators do, at least not the work that I do, can be outsourced ...

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While there is some uncertainty about how exactly the region’s space sector may evolve, there is plenty of optimism, too.

One of the difficulties of geoengineering is that in theory a single entity, like a startup company, could make decisions ...