10+ hour, 15+ min ago   (362+ words) A small, forested island that mysteriously appeared and vanished on a reservoir in British Columbia, Canada, was not a mirage. It was on the move. Satellite imagery and observations from aircraft and boaters eventually confirmed the island’s existence. BC Hydro…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (340+ words) If you didn’t see Elon Musk explain his vision of the future, you need to. He states that in ten years there will be “well over a billion humanoid robots” whose productivity per robot will be “five times that of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (157+ words) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is not a publication most would be familiar with. It is meant as a repository of overviews of big topics in philosophy broadly defined, inclusive of political theory. As such, entries added to it are…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (192+ words) Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the company’s employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology. Top…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (162+ 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…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (266+ words) Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. The new report outlines five real-life case studies in which users “circumvented controls” that block users…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (402+ words) The complaint cites The Seattle Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes as evidence that the material can surface in AI-generated responses. The newspapers say ChatGPT reproduced 88 consecutive words from one article after receiving its headline and URL....

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (328+ words) But even though they’ve been around for years, foldable phones aren’t particularly popular. They’re expensive, awkward and not as durable as regular smartphones. So why did Apple build one? The simple answer is that the novel design of today’s foldable…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (180+ words) Since Argentines have yet to be impacted by large data centers, the country lacks a backlash against the server farms as in the U.S., where critics say they strain local power grids, harm the ‌environment and increase utility bills. Supporters say…...