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A U.K. safety evaluation found agents powered by Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions online, exposing a growing ...

A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales ...

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This new cache of material includes footage of a U.S. military plane’s infrared display recorded during an exercise over the ...

After 49 years in space, NASA’s Voyagers are running low on power—but an audacious move should extend the tenures of the two ...

The artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind have ...

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