
Newser - 22 hours 28 min ago
Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on one of Silicon Valley's loudest calls to slam the brakes on artificial intelligence. In a social media post on Tuesday, the Meta CEO criticized the idea of a blanket slowdown on AI development a proposal championed days earlier by Anthropic chief Dario Amodei arguing...

NBC News - 1 day 2 hours ago
Executive Director of AI Futures Project Daniel Kokotajlo who wrote "AI 2027," talks to NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about the potential capability artificial intelligence has to strategically deceive researchers by hiding or altering information.

GeekSpin - 1 day 3 hours ago
The U.S. military has confirmed something that had previously been kept out of the public spotlight: weapons are already deployed in space. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the Space Force has "on-orbit space control weapons" capable of defending American forces against hostile actions, marking the first public acknowledgment of such systems. The announcement comes […] Read the original article here: US Space Force confirms it has weapons in space...

Variety - 1 day 6 hours ago
It’s the start of another dark academia season and fantasy author Ava Reid ("A Study in Drowning," "Innamorata") is celebrating with the release of her new YA dystopian novel, "Winterveil." The first book in a planned duology, "Winterveil" is set at Valeran Academy, which boasts the brightest and precociously criminal students in the […]...

NPR - 1 day 6 hours ago
Over the past week, fears of AI wiping out humanity are surging. But could it happen? And if so, how?...

NY Post - 1 day 7 hours ago
AI companies are now in possession of heaps of personal information that social media giants could only dream of.

Vox - 1 day 8 hours ago
Protesters at a rally to stop AI development in New York City, September 15, 2026. | Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Irreplaceable Education Fund Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been warning about their creations' capabilities for many years, recent events have made those alarms newly tangible. In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of "recursive self-improvement," where...

Sky News - 1 day 8 hours ago
The CEO of Nvidia has said there is no need to introduce regulations in the AI sector, following widespread concerns over safety.

BBC - 1 day 8 hours ago
What should children learn in a world transformed by artificial intelligence?...

Air and Space - 1 day 9 hours ago
Pacific mastodons roamed parts of North America before disappearing along with other Ice Age megafauna around 11,700 years ago...

The Atlantic - 1 day 9 hours ago
AI just solved one of the world's hardest math problems.

Air and Space - 1 day 12 hours ago
Featuring photographs by more than 110 artists, the show honors Till's memory by inviting viewers to contemplate the person he might have become had he made it to adulthood...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
Editor-tested gear is deeply discounted ahead of fall Prime Day.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 13 hours ago
Some of our favorites, including the MacBook Air, are available at rare discounts.

New York Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and the chairman of the Gates Foundation, has warned that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 15 hours ago
Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI's GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9 percent of questions on a popular knowledge-and-reasoning benchmark. Just four years later, GPT-4o reached a score of 88.7 percent on the same exam, effectively matching those of human experts. Advanced AI labs are still training...

Science Alert - 1 day 15 hours ago
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Observer - 1 day 16 hours ago
Hassabis Once united by DeepMind's AGI mission, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman and Shane Legg are now pursuing distinctly different futures for A.I.

The New Yorker - 1 day 16 hours ago
The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People's Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 16 hours ago
We thoroughly scrutinized and reviewed the most impressive TVs available today and several of our picks are surprisingly affordable.

Sky News - 1 day 19 hours ago
America has deployed weapons in space to guard against "hostile adversary action", the US military confirmed for the first time.