This week, the Trump administration launched a technique for bettering the well being and well-being of American kids. The report was titled—you guessed it—Make Our Kids Wholesome Once more. It suggests American kids ought to be consuming extra healthily. And they need to be getting extra train.

However there’s a evident omission. The main reason behind demise for American kids and youngsters isn’t ultraprocessed meals or publicity to some chemical. It’s gun violence. 

This week’s information of but extra high-profile shootings at colleges within the US throws this disconnect into even sharper aid. Consultants consider it’s time to deal with gun violence within the US as what it’s: a public well being disaster. Learn the total story.

—Jessica Hamzelou

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How do AI fashions generate movies?

It’s been an enormous 12 months for video technology. Within the final 9 months OpenAI made Sora public, Google DeepMind launched Veo 3, and the video startup Runway launched Gen-4. All can produce video clips which can be (nearly) inconceivable to differentiate from precise filmed footage or CGI animation.

The draw back is that creators are competing with AI slop, and social media feeds are filling up with faked information footage. Video technology additionally makes use of up an enormous quantity of power, many occasions greater than textual content or picture technology.

With AI-generated movies in all places, let’s take a second to speak in regards to the tech that makes them work. Learn the total story.

—Will Douglas Heaven