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AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology, as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk call for a coordinated slowdown.
Recreating burned ancient scrolls and scanning them for lead may help scientists read some of the more complex writings that were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, according to a new study.
A study that uses a video game has helped scientists find the precise place in the brain where decisions are assembled, half a second before a person acts on them.
Scientists have identified a key point in the feeding cycle when supermassive black holes launch powerful jets and outflows. The finding could help researchers understand how black holes grow and how they influence the galaxies around them.
A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development.
Yoshua Bengio, one of the 'godfathers' of artificial intelligence, says there’s an urgent need for the world to “wake up” to the existential risks posed by AI technology, and urge governments to act.
More than 100 leading artificial intelligence experts, including Canada's so-called 'Godfather of AI,' have signed a public letter calling for more independent oversight of the world’s most advanced AI companies.
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such an act.
Tech company OpenAI has filed dozens of motions asking a U.S. court to dismiss lawsuits filed by victims and families of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council next week during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York for the UN General Assembly, an OpenAI spokesperson said on Friday.
A new analysis of the road network of the Roman Empire has dispelled the enduring myth that all roads lead to Rome, showing instead that other important cities — such as Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul — were more central in the network.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday directing state officials to explore the feasibility of imposing a mandatory “kill switch” for the most advanced AI models.
Space warfare may no longer be a thing of sci-fi myth following the U.S. announcement earlier this week. But one expert says this isn’t a new concept.
Humanoid robots will be able to complete most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions as soon as next year, although becoming useful around the house will take much longer, said the head of a leading Chinese company developing robot brains.
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday.
After nearly 14 years on another planet, a robot has sent a postcard back to Earth.
