Its founder prompted AI to create a website that would make people angry. It sparked a widespread debate over the technology’s potential to ruin today’s classroom teaching and learning.

The first first day of fall semester for a university freshman is often stressful. Not for Vanessa Menera, an 18-year-old who’s the first in her family to attend college.

Raising two children in New York City was expensive. Each day felt like a marathon they didn’t think they could finish. But the girls were thriving, and Rachel and Irvi were beloved at work. Every few ...

Aeshaan Kumar opens his laptop at 11 p.m., stares at a CS135 problem set, and does what most of his classmates do: he asks ChatGPT. Not for the answer, he tells himself, but for a nudge in the right ...

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Specify everything you need, do it as if you’re talking to your medical assistant,’ one dermatologist recommends.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...