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Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan ...

Matthew Taylor likened his recently published work alongside doctoral student Gary Dunn to kicking over a rock. Once the ...

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing ...