
Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: he's launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer "personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs." But his ambitions go well beyond dogs - and pets - with Gamgee's website promising the company will harness AI and genetics to develop personalized treatme
An Australian tech entrepreneur who used AI tools to help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog has launched a startup to offer similar treatments for dogs and eventually other species and humans. The entrepreneur credits the AI-assisted vaccine with shrinking his dog's tumors and extending its life, and his startup's website features the dog prominently in its marketing materials. However, reporting indicates the science behind the story is more complex than presented, with researchers noting that the broad claims gave AI too much credit while minimizing the role of human involvement. The startup represents how viral stories about AI breakthroughs can quickly become the basis for new commercial ventures.

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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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