This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro

The next time you apply sunscreen to project your skin from potentially cancer-inducing Ultraviolet rays from the sun; consider this: rays of light are actually being used right now to kill skin cancer, and may one day be used on other forms of cancer deep inside the body.

This promising new development is being explored by a research team at the Cleveland Clinic, headed by Dr. Vijay Krishna, who tells us all about their ground-breaking research, in this week's edition of This Week In Tech With Jeanne Destro.

Listen now to find out how this project, which just won a $2 million dollar award through Wellcome Leap’s Quantum for Bio Challenge , is powered by a Quantum computer which can process information in the blink of an eye that would take, in Krishna's words, "trillions" of years for even the most advanced, conventional, binary computer.

Will the new Anthropic "Mythos" AI model be a blessing, or a curse?

Well, that depends on who wields what could be the most powerful cyber weapon ever created, according to a tech expert we talked to on this week's edition of "This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro".

We'll also be talking about an escalating backlash to AI in general, and data centers in particular, why you should always double-check the medical advice you get from AI, violence aimed at those who aim to further AI development., and Anthropic's ongoing dispute with the Pentagon.

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This week, an AI model from Anthropic so powerful its creators are limiting its release, a lawsuit claiming Open AI’s Chat GPT was behind a mass shooting, farmers notching a win for the right to repair, and NASA astronauts once again orbiting the moon.

Did you know that the cells in your eyes can "talk" to one another?

Well, they can, according to some new research going on right now at the University of Akron.

Listen now, and find out more from U-A Biology Chair, Dr. Jordan Renna. He's our special guest, on "This Week in Tech With Jeanne Destro".

This week, the business landscape in which big tech companies operate dramatically shifted, as juries in two different states awarded big monetary judgements to plaintiffs who alleged the social media giants Meta and Google were harming children.

While the two cases—one in California, and the other; in New Mexico–were similar, they were not the same.

So, to get some clarity on what was claimed in each, and how the juries made their decisions; I talked about it with University of Akron Visiting Law Professor, Jess Miers.

Miers focuses on the intersection of law and technology,  has actually worked in the tech industry, and has done a great deal of research on issues including online speech, the federal law that has protected big tech from legal judgements for decades known as Section 230, AI, cybercrime, and more: