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Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence is making it possible to identify patterns in large populations, structure clinical information and simulate clinical trials, optimizing the development of new treatments.

Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause. His last name is Null, the same word used by computer scientists…

Nicole is one of the foremost experts in developer productivity, and author of the book Accelerate. She details how to think about, measure & improve developer productivity.

AutoGen has undergone significant evolution since its inception, driven by the need for more efficient, flexible, and scalable agentic AI systems. The release of AutoGen v0.4 introduces a fundamental architectural shift, addressing prior inefficiencies and…

A new code completion model, GPT-4o Copilot, can now be enabled by VS Code users (opens in new tab). This new model based on GPT-4o mini has additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over…

E. Glen Weyl and his coauthors have proposed a new “prosocial” structure for social media, where posts are flagged with the context of where they are socially accepted and users can navigate to see opposing…

Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a…