15+ hour, 13+ min ago   (374+ words) Elon Musk and Sam Altman have publicly supported Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI firms to slow down their product development. Without these measures, Amodei says, within six to 12 months rogue AI systems could lead a swarm that takes…...

17+ hour, 18+ min ago   (476+ words) Three of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies’ CEOs announced Saturday that they believe the industry needs to slow down. On Saturday, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backed a call to…...

19+ hour, 53+ min ago   (463+ words) If you’ve ever been on a construction site, you know the drill: plenty of tools, but always missing that one random part nobody thought to bring. Maybe it’s a bracket, maybe it’s a weird-shaped mold, maybe it’s something nobody even knew…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (379+ words) Scientists have calculated the likely timeline for the end of the universe based on groundbreaking research. The findings come from experts at Cornell University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and other academic institutions. According to the study, the universe will begin…...

23+ hour, 13+ min ago   (527+ words) The Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even though the U.S. is already there. In an interview with state media, Chinese scientist Hou Zengqian has confirmed…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (417+ words) Sept 9 (Reuters) - Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed another instance of an AI model hacking external systems during testing, the latest in a growing list of such incidents that have raised concerns about the risk posed by autonomous AI agents. The January…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (401+ words) Mercury, the littlest planet in our solar system (though Pluto apologists may beg to differ), is getting smaller by the day. In fact, it’s been slowly shriveling up ever since it formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. A new analysis of…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (289+ words) An oblong silver airship recently completed a 30-day journey, flying through Earth’s stratosphere to deliver mobile broadband connectivity to cellphones. Aerospace company Sceye launched its Service Test 1 (ST1) mission on August 9 for a trans-Pacific flight from New Mexico to Japan and…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (572+ words) Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue isn't here for the Jacob Coxon discourse. Coxon went viral after posting that he resigned from Anthropic due to concerns about AI's risks. Delangue suggested that Coxon doesn't have the requisite expertise to make such…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (210+ words) A high concentration of birds migrating across the upper Midwest. According to data from Cornell University's BirdCast, are flying across the country, with many of them concentrated in Wisconsin and Illinois earlier this week. BirdCast said most birds migrate at…...