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An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

If you give an AI agent a robotic arm, an injector, and a live mouse, it might just perform brain surgery.

Biotech founder Gabriel Ocana Santero recently did that using an agent to successfully carry out a brain injection procedure on a living mouse. Though it required some extra steps, it offers a glimpse into how AI could eventually become an active participant in laboratory research.

Santero posted about the experiment on social media and tells WIRED he was interested in exploring what happens when AI agents are given direct access to lab equipment, rather than simply being asked to design experiments or analyze results.

“We’ve realized that we need to connect these agents to a lab to get the maximum value from them,” he says. Santero is the CEO and cofounder of Exin Therapeutics, a San Francisco–based startup using AI to analyze brain activity to develop drugs for...

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Does Your Pet Really Need a Smart Collar? Veterinarians Weigh In - CNET

Just like their human companions, pets can have wearables of their own. Though they’re usually advertised as GPS pet trackers, these smart collars often monitor your cat’s and dog’s health metrics, such as heart rate, respiratory rate, eating and drinking, activity, sleep and even barking, licking and

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Walmart Carves $700 Off HP's HyperX Omen RTX 5060 Laptop For Halloween

Forget the bags of M&M's and fun-size chocolate bars, because Walmart is handing out a much sweeter treat this Halloween. The retailer has taken a monstrous $700 bite out of HP's HyperX Omen 15 gaming laptop, making it one of the more affordable options

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My Fridge Is Ready for the Next Power Outage

As with all home batteries, there’s some bonus value in Backup to be found in running the battery when there’s not a power outage. That’s because you can take advantage of Time of Use (TOU) rate billing from your utility, running off of battery power during peak

Google Joins OpenAI And Anthropic In Promising New Scraping Controls

The new robots.txt directive will prevent the companies from scraping content for generative AI training. Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have committed to honoring a new robots.txt directive, which will allow publishers to specify their preferences when it comes to the scraping of their content for generative AI

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Does Your Pet Really Need a Smart Collar? Veterinarians Weigh In - CNET

Walmart Carves $700 Off HP's HyperX Omen RTX 5060 Laptop For Halloween

My Fridge Is Ready for the Next Power Outage

Google Joins OpenAI And Anthropic In Promising New Scraping Controls