Anthropic is launching a new program to study 'model welfare.' The lab believes future AI could be more human-like — and thus ...

I loved the piece in Wednesday’s Union-Tribune about the polio vaccine, and about Jonas Salk’s selflessness. Both my husband and I went to school in the 1960s with older students who’d contracted ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, shares news about a promising innovation from the Salk Institute in San Diego. Scientists are developing low-emission crops that could ...

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year.

Typically, the vaccinations were spaced a month apart. In 1960, Salk established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, a San Diego suburb. The institute became a leading biomedical ...

This sentiment applies to an untold number of Americans but also to Dr. Jonas Salk, the virologist whose injectable polio vaccine Mr. Greene also mentions. I contracted polio in August 1955 after ...

compare model performance, and build out their own benchmarks and evaluations to drive improvements and accountability,” said John Willes, Vector Institute’s AI infrastructure and research ...

That first experimental model was just the beginning. Google is deploying its improved AI in more places across its ecosystem, from the developer-centric Vertex AI to the consumer Gemini app.

Christie Brinkley rose to prominence as a model when she earned three consecutive cover shoots for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in 1979, 1980, and 1981. Brinkley is now 71 years old, but she still ...