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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

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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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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

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Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. That grew into aquaculture farming technology with Russek and his team creating a startup company around it called Maricultura Vigas. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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How the new AI executive order stacks up: B-

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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. Immigrants have provided the fuel behind America’s technology startups. But will it? AI must be regulated.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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We want to feed the world responsibly, and these products have the ability to substitute for synthetic chemicals and provide growers a way to protect their crops, especially as consumers want natural, sustainable tools,” he added. While the solution would be to not do that, not doing that would mean produce doesn’t grow as well, he added.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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As the technology exhausts its honeymoon period, and companies in all industries find new ways of using it to get ahead of the competition, a new race is on. An additional use of new proteins is to detect chemicals in the body very quickly. “If Or you might use new proteins to test for other compounds, such as antibodies.

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

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The startup is building a platform using synthetic DNA to store digital data, and has teamed up with storage vendor Seagate Technology for a research collaboration to advance its automated DNA storage and computation platform. Catalog , a Boston-based startup, has come up with a novel way of solving the problem.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Many technology leaders already worked with AI for over a decade for things like predictive maintenance and supply chain planning. Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that.