Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tech leaders hold hands onstage at India’s AI Impact Summit. (Ludovic MARIN—AFP/Getty Images) Yoshua Bengio, like many ...

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who leads a foundation focused on global health, wants the U.S. military to focus more training on preparing to fight a global pandemic or bioterror attack.

Yoshua Bengio, like many participants at India’s AI Impact Summit, was running late. By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep-learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” ...