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Macrons to offer ’scientific evidence’ to US court to prove Brigitte is a woman, lawyer says
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics represents one of the most pressing challenges in modern medicine, with resistant infections killing hundreds of thousands or more annually. Bacteria can quickly evolve resistance to traditional antibiotics, limiting therapeutic effectiveness. We wanted to see if we could one day design phage therapies that could be resilient against bacterial evolution. […] successful phages combined genetic elements from 2-3 different AI-generated designs, suggesting that the diversity created by our approach provided multiple evolutionary pathways for overcoming resistance.
Lung cancer cells seem to hijack synaptic signalling to promote tumour growth
The art world is in a precarious state as it heads into the second half of 2025. Not a week goes by, it seems, without a major gallery closing. […] There are too many advisors, too many galleries, too many artists, too many fairs. Everything will need to downsize. […] “Some of my colleagues have $50,000-to-$60,000 rent payments every month,” Koenig said. “They have the equivalent amount in staffing payments. Then there are all the ins and outs of running a business in New York. It’s insane.” Babin, who had to pay $53,560 a month for his space on the Bowery, said he saw no choice but to close. […] His landlord alleges in its lawsuit that Clearing owes several months of back rent, totaling $420,016 with late fees and interest.
One of the effects of chatbots may be to turn “seeking information” into an alibi for an experience of risk-free simulated sociality. Prompting becomes a pretense for the ersatz conversation, especially since the information provided may not be all that reliable.
“We are the only company where the mission is truth,” Mr. Musk told xAi workers [NY Times]
Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo1 (their favourite is four cheese), and a physics award for figuring out how to prepare the perfect cacio e pepe2 — a pasta dish made with grated pecorino romano cheese and black pepper that is surprisingly hard to get right
