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FDA Clears Way For Faster Personalized Gene Editing Therapy

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A top United States regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to unleash a wave of industry investment that will yield cures for patients with rare diseases. From a report: Vinay Prasad, who oversees gene therapies at the Food and Drug Administration, said scientific advances, like Crispr, have forced the agency to relax some of its strict rules. As an example, he cited the case of 10-month-old KJ Muldoon, who this year became the first person in history to have his genes custom edited to cure an inherited disease. "Regulation has to evolve as fast as science evolves," Prasad said in an interview with Bloomberg News. The agency is "going to be extremely flexible and work very fast with the scientists who want to bring these therapies to kids who need it." Prasad plans to publish a paper in early November outlining the FDA's new approach. He predicted it will spark interest in developing treatments for conditions that may affect only a handful of people.

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AWS “Bullish” On Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators

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One only need look at the incredible revenues and profits of the datacenter business at Nvidia to know that the world’s biggest compute customers – the hyperscalers, the cloud builders, and now the biggest model builders – need to bend the price/performance curve to boost their own profits. …

AWS “Bullish” On Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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YouTube's AI moderator pulls Windows 11 workaround videos, calls them dangerous

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Creators baffled as videos on local accounts, unsupported PCs vanish under ‘harmful acts’ rule

Is installing Windows 11 with a local account or on unsupported hardware harmful or dangerous? YouTube's AI moderation system seems to think so, as it has started pulling videos that show users how to sidestep Microsoft's setup restrictions.…

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