2026-08-22
This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month
Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in Massachusetts has spent four years keeping human skin alive outside […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-22
Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail
A study from researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego finds that so-called skills make AI agents better mainly through structured workflows, not through added knowledge. But as the skill library grows, agents have a harder and harder time finding the right set of instructions.<br /> The article Study explains why AI agents benefit from "skills" and when they fail appear [...]
