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Almost 50 years ago, Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn revolutionized the world by designing TCP/IP, the foundation of the internet. Now vinton g cerf speaks with Alok Jha from The Economist on the state of the internet & lessons for the future, including generative AI ow.ly/8Bc750P5itW

Look at that handsome face 😍 Well done Ian 👏🏽 👏🏽

Right, thread time. My latest for The Economist looks at the global #manufacturing delusion. As a German, I have some experience dealing with people who fall for it. Don't be those people. /1 economist.com/finance-and-ec…

King of Spain at the final day of Wimbledon. This looks great. Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵

Why are demonstrations important for engaging younger audiences in science? Alok Jha asks @alomshaha on this week’s “Babbage” podcast 🥼 econ.st/3DlHpaF

Are the elections of 2024 really at risk because of generative AI? Our cover this week: economist.com/leaders/2023/0…

How will AI transform society? Alok Jha investigates with Mustafa Suleyman, on our “Babbage” podcast econ.st/3r7iJR1

The findings by 2023 #NobelPrize laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman led to the approval of two highly successful mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020. The vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented severe disease in many more.

Do I know any people in #LosAngeles ?🤔 If so, get in touch. Am in town next week, would appreciate some eating/ sightseeing/cultural recommendations 🙏🏽

A few thoughts on today, in no particular order. First, among Israelis: impossible to overstate the level of shock. The intelligence failure resembles 1973, but you almost have to go back to 1948 to find an analogue for the violence that played out in cities and towns. 🧵

Exclusive: Buried in the online autumn statement is a bit of news with potentially huge implications for biopharma. The UK is going to try to create a pathway for individually customised medicines! economist.com/britain/2023/1… @mhra Mila's Miracle Genomics England Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre

1/🧵 Lots of fuss and bother about the announcement from Neuralink today about having implanted their tech in a human brain for the first time. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

There’s one day left to apply for The Economist science and tech writing internship. If you want to work with us for three months over the summer, the details are here: economist.com/casement2024

Really enjoyed this. Charles Duhigg is full of great insights into the science and art of good communication

Thanks to Alok Jha for flagging this gem: A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends economist.com/britain/2024/0… from The Economist

This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. Check out two examples of protein structures determined using AlphaFold2. First up, a bacterial enzyme

Read my cover story in this week's edition of The Economist. The Everything Drugs. How GLP-1 drugs are being investigated for treating a huge array of conditions and could turn out to be the most important class of drugs ever discovered. economist.com/briefing/2024/…

When alan rusbridger asked me to set up a new science section at the guardian Tim Radford (the science editor) could have cut up rough about it. Instead he was grace itself and an absolute beacon of collegiality for the new recruits Ian Sample Alok Jha and co.