This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 28)

AI Has Designed Bacteria-Killing Proteins From Scratch--and They Work Karmela Padavic-Callaghan New Scientist "The AI, called ProGen, works in a similar way to AIs that can generate text. ProGen learned how to generate new proteins by learning the grammar of how amino acids combine to form 280 million existing proteins. Instead of the researchers choosing a topic for the AI to write about, they could specify a group of similar proteins for it to focus on. In this case, they chose a group of proteins with antimicrobial activity." BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content Alexandra Bruell The Wall Street Journal "BuzzFeed Inc. said it would rely on ChatGPT creator OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize some content for its audiences, becoming the latest digital publisher to embrace artificial intelligence. In a memo to staff sent Thursday morning, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said he intends for AI to play a larger role in the company's editorial and business operations this year."