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  1. Research

    Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 predicts how DNA changes affect specific kinds of human cells (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Google says it finds nearly twice as many DNA variants that change gene activity as its previous best model. Researchers can use it today for non-commercial work through the AlphaGenome API.

    Google DeepMind · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  2. Model

    ElevenLabs presents Scribe v3 Medical, a speech-to-text model for healthcare, at its New York summit (opens the original source in a new tab)

    It also previewed Interaction Engine, a system that coordinates a whole conversation, and announced Memory, which will let its agents recognise returning customers.

    ElevenLabs · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  3. Open source

    LangChain 1.5.0 adds model-router and auto-mode middleware and drops Python 3.10 (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Middleware is code that sits between an app and the model it calls. The release marks the router as beta and ends support for Python 3.10, which has reached its end of life.

    LangChain · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  4. Trending

    A developer's AI agents spotted a Maya site in NASA lidar data that Mexico's official register did not list (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Lidar maps the ground by firing laser pulses through gaps in the trees. The author later learned researchers had already mapped the site, so the agents rediscovered it.

    911 points on Hacker News

    Pietro Miotti · Original source (opens in a new tab)

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