Google DeepMind’s AlphaMissense tool predicts whether a genetic mutation is likely to cause harm

Jun Cheng of Google DeepMind said, “We should emphasize that the predictors were never actually trained on or intended to be used solely for clinical diagnosis.” “However, we think our predictions could be helpful in increasing rare disease diagnosis rates, and potentially even help us find new disease-causing genes,” Cheng said. Indirectly, this could lead […]

White House to meet Microsoft, Google CEOs on AI threats

Thursday’s meeting will be attended by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients, national security adviser Jake Sullivan Lail, director of the National Economic Council. Brainard and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Before […]

Google’s news-blocking test in Canada a ‘horrible mistake’, says PM Trudeau

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trudeau’s Liberal government last year introduced the “Online News Act,” which created rules for platforms such as Meta’s Facebook and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers. Facebook has also raised concerns about the law and warned that it could be forced to […]

Indonesia drafts law enabling media to receive payment from digital platforms for content

Digital platforms in Indonesia include Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google and some local aggregators. Arif said these platforms benefit from carrying content generated by media companies, while “most media get less profit”. “(There is) no balance in it,” he said. Under the new law, the Press Council will decide the pricing structure and payment plans, acting […]