Remember when AI couldn’t crack a tough math problem without hallucinating formulas? Those days could soon be over. Maybe they already are. We could already have experimental AI systems that surpass 90% accuracy on the graduate-level Google-Proof Q&A benchmark GPQA Diamond), a test of graduate‐level reasoning in biology, physics, and chemistry. For context, in-domain experts…
100 of the largest tech, telecom and innovation sector layoffs of 2024
For many workers, it pays to have a job in an R&D or STEM-heavy field. The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts 10.4% growth in STEM jobs through 2033, more than double the overall employment growth rate of 4%. However, the technology sector has experienced significant restructuring in 2024, with approximately 150,000 job cuts across more…
Honeywell is betting AI can help save industrial know-how
AI is changing the dynamics of industrial work. But while many people, whether in the industrial sector or outside of it, fear that one of the main thrusts of AI will be job replacement, that’s not the view of Honeywell executive Jason Urso. With a wave of retirements looming in industrial sectors, Urso believes the…
From Palantir to methane-hunting to organoids: Why this tech vet is building a lights-out lab to make drug discovery more like software development
Ari Gesher, a veteran technologist who helped shape SourceForge in its heyday and was a key player at Palantir, the publicly-traded big data analytics company, wants to build a fully automated “lights-off” lab for drug discovery at Parallel Bio. “I’m using our biologists to prototype what the scientific processes are, then we’re going to build…