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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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This startup aims to improve recycling by capturing ‘chemical fingerprints’ with high-tech cameras

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Metaspectral uses hyperspectral cameras to rapidly create a chemical fingerprint of plastic items, distinguishing between polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and polypropylene (PP) plastics. “It allows us to make up a chemical fingerprint off the material we’re looking at.”

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The UW’s Institute for Protein Design keeps boosting startups, fueling AI-powered science

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New studies, companies and spinouts are emerging at a rapid clip from the research hub, propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. The company aims to combine machine learning with large-scale data generation to fuel new models and develop new therapies. Published Dec. 14 in Nature Communications. Published Oct.

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Alphabet is launching a company that uses AI for drug discovery

The Verge

A new Alphabet company will use artificial intelligence methods for drug discovery, Google’s parent company announced Thursday. The company may not develop its own drugs but instead sell its models. It will focus on developing partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, a spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

CIO Business Intelligence

The White House’s new executive order, “ Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence ,” is poised to usher in a new era of national AI regulation, focusing on safety and responsibility across the sector. But will it? The executive order represents the U.S.

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University student entrepreneurs pitch planet-protecting ideas in annual ‘Environmental Innovation Challenge’

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Jones Foundation Second Place Prize and the $2,500 Eric Carlson Best Idea for Climate Impact Prize C-1 Bio is developing a strategy for capturing carbon dioxide using specially engineered aquatic bacteria that can turn the carbon into precursor chemicals for industrial uses.

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ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

Vox

Riot police don gas masks and anti-chemical gloves on March 24, 1995, before raiding a commune of the religious cult the “Aum Supreme Truth” in Kamikuishiki village west of Tokyo. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP via Getty Images The biggest risk from advanced artificial intelligence is biological.