Monthly Archives: July 2022

Alibaba tanks 10% and drives Chinese stocks lower after SEC says e-commerce giant faces potential delisting

Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, testifies at a hearing in September. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images Chinese stocks moved lower on Friday after the SEC flagged Alibaba for a potential delisting.Chinese companies listed on US exchanges have until 2024 to comply with a new law that requires them to be audited by US-based accountants.“If we’re in…

DeepMind’s AI has now catalogued every protein known to science

In late 2020, Alphabet’s DeepMind division unveiled its novel protein fold prediction algorithm, AlphaFold, and helped solve a scientific quandary that had stumped researchers for half a century. In the year since its beta release, half a million scientists from around the world have accessed the AI system’s results and cited them in their own…

Free AI tool restores old photos by creating slightly new loved ones

You can find AI that creates new images, but what if you want to fix an old family photo? You might have a no-charge option. Louis Bouchard and PetaPixel have drawn attention to a free tool recently developed by Tencent researchers, GFP-GAN (Generative Facial Prior-Generative Adversarial Network), that can restore damaged and low-resolution portraits. The…