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Biotech: when life becomes engineering

For centuries humanity read the book of life without being able to write in it, breeding blindly and hoping. To decipher a genome is to learn to read; to edit one is to learn to write. Where the line runs: correcting a gene in a sick person is one thing, rewriting the heredity of people who never consented is another.

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Open models and the chance for small countries

On 16 July Bloomberg reported that Google's flagship model was delayed by months: Alphabet shares fell 4.4%, some $200 billion in a day. The same day China's Moonshot released Kimi K3 and promised its weights to everyone. Why open weights matter more here than data centres. One company could not ship on time.