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Github CEO Nat Friedman traveled to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a remote Arctic archipelago at the halfway point from Norway and the North Pole, to bury code in the event of a global catastrophe. Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance was along for the ride, as was Strange Brew’s John O’Brien. This important mission to preserve code for future generations made the November 2019 cover of Businessweek.

Most people don’t realize how AI is being adopted to protect everyday citizens. In this deep dive with Fortune, American Express explores how they are using generative adversarial networks - or GANs - to train fraud-detection models, and thus protect customers’ personal data and privacy.

With data centers forecasted to account for more than 15% of global power use in the next five years, anything that saves electricity is valuable. To account for this, Lightmatter introduced L1, a wafer-scale photonic communications platform that will be 100x faster and 10x more energy efficient than the fastest interconnect solutions for processors to day, but using no optical fibers.

Biobot co-founder, Newsha Ghaeli, spoke on The Daily Show about the company's national campaign to fight Covid by studying wastewater. The interview dives into the critical scientific and technological breakthroughs that Biobot is leading on a global scale, along with the occasional poop joke (or six) by Daily Show correspondent, Michael Kosta.