The collaboration will use state-of-the-art genomics approaches in combination with machine learning methods to advance our scientific understanding of cells and tissues in health and disease.

This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next level of AI cleverness”, argues Dr Tom McClelland.

University of Cambridge spinout Matta has raised $14 million in funding to transform how products are designed and manufactured.

Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated ‘personality test’ framework for popular AI chatbots, and have shown that chatbots not only mimic human personality traits, but their ‘personality’ can be reliably tested and precisely shaped – raising implications for AI safety and ethics.