Subramaniam Vincent is director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. At the core of storytelling for news is sourcing ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Artificial intelligence systems are only as powerful as the data they are trained on. High-quality labeled datasets determine whether a model performs with precision or fails in production.

Sarah D. Sparks is a reporter and data journalist for Education Week who covers the teaching profession and pedagogy for Education Week. She has covered education research and the science of learning ...