“Human genetics is at a pivotal time,” says Cecilia Lindgren, a human geneticist at the University of Oxford, UK. Although researchers have become adept at discovering disease-associated genetic ...

Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup.

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Jeanne Gobat is a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect ...