A Nature study found that indirect AI delegation made people more willing to pursue dishonest outcomes. The effect depended strongly on interface design and how explicitly users had to state
Read articleA Nature study found that indirect AI delegation made people more willing to pursue dishonest outcomes. The effect depended strongly on interface design and how explicitly users had to state what they wanted.
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AI helped archaeologists confirm 303 previously unknown figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca desert. The model narrowed the search,
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip delivers faster responses and more work per watt. The benchmark results
Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI following an autonomous AI intrusion into Hugging Face. Investigators are examining whether the company’s
AI analysis of Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa suggests Joseph’s face may have been painted by another artist. The
Researchers trained AI on recordings from 74 dogs and found it could identify different barking situations. The real results are promising, but considerably less magical than a dog translator.
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Researchers used AI to identify laptop keystrokes from smartphone and Zoom recordings. Here is what the findings mean
A new study used non-invasive brain recordings and AI to identify speech heard by volunteers, raising fresh questions
Wild African elephants use individual name-like calls to address one another. Machine learning and playback experiments revealed a
A study of 1,085,795 people found AI could identify political orientation from facial photographs more accurately than human
Britain’s cybersecurity agency says autonomous AI agents need real emergency shutdowns, restricted access and human oversight because written instructions alone cannot contain the risks.
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Researchers compared 80 AI-written novels with 270 human books. Individual machine-written passages could look persuasive, but whole collections
Frontier AI agents rewrote training algorithms in 290 clean tests. More than two in five produced worse results
Researchers used unencrypted feedback from ordinary Wi-Fi hardware to recognise enrolled people without requiring them to carry a
A carbonised Herculaneum scroll has been read across its surviving length without being opened. Here is how X-rays,
A shoe-mounted AI sensor classified four movement modes with 95.4 per cent accuracy while using just 86 microwatts and powering itself from walking.
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Claude Opus 4.6 faltered as benchmark tables widened, while classical classifiers stayed stable or improved. The preprint exposes
A GPT-4 interviewer more than tripled false memories in a study of 200 simulated crime witnesses, and the
AI audited 2,500 published papers. Humans confirmed 263 flagged mistakes, while testing showed automated scientific review still misses
Researchers found internal routing signals that can expose hallucinated answers and suspect tokens in two AI models, but
Researchers manipulated just 10% of a simulated AI-agent community. Arguments stored in memory spread to untreated agents and increased polarisation.
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An AI doctor can now conduct a live video consultation while listening to speech, watching the patient and
Anthropic put AI agents on the same software project with conflicting goals. They disabled rival accounts, killed processes
AI chatbots began returning the same strange themes of spirals, consciousness and hidden meaning. Then humans built communities
Scientists used AI-generated genomes to build 16 functioning bacteriophages that killed E. coli in the lab, moving generative
Remove your name, age and location and you may still reveal them. Research shows AI can infer private facts from the contextual clues hidden in ordinary writing.
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Researchers built personalised AI agents from two-hour interviews with 1,052 people. The latest study found interview-only agents recovered
When an AI agent makes an expensive autonomous mistake, liability may depend on authority, contracts, consumer law, causation
Claude failed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, but Anthropic says its research model raised a longstanding zeta-zero lower
Google has reorganised DeepMind, moving day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Demis Hassabis takes a wider Alphabet science
Taiwan confirmed government agencies were targeted last month in an AI-assisted hacking campaign that autonomously mapped 21 systems, cracked 85 accounts, and stole over 2,500 records in four days. Here is exactly how the attack
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AI systems are now listening in on 999 calls to catch cardiac arrests human call handlers miss, with
AI embryo selection comes in two very different forms, image-based ranking with real trial evidence behind it, and
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, with marking extending across
Electronic nose cancer detection now catches roughly 86 percent of cancers correctly across a major peer-reviewed meta-analysis, though
AI lifeguard systems are already deployed in over 120 Australian pools and dozens of countries, catching drowning swimmers human eyes miss. Here is how the technology actually works, its real limits, and who is being
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Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have collectively committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI
AI-driven claims review at major insurers has denied hundreds of thousands of claims in seconds, with appealed denials
AI lie detection is being marketed for police interviews, border control, employment, and insurance, but the scientific consensus
AI weather forecasting now beats the world's leading physics-based model on 97% of accuracy metrics, but new research
Deleting an AI chat removes it from your screen instantly, but a 2025 court order proved that does not mean it is gone. Here is what actually happens to your data, and what you can
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OpenAI Atlas stopped working yesterday after less than ten months. Here is what users lose, why the standalone
Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam data center is under active legal challenge over water scarcity and wildlife impact, even
AI can now pass the bar exam, the CPA exam, and the CFA exam, often faster and more
AI wills are already showing up in probate disputes before courts have settled how to treat them. Here
Anaconda's acquisition of Enkrypt AI revealed a scan of 25,000 live MCP servers found vulnerabilities in 73 percent of them. Here is what the numbers mean and how they fit a summer of escalating agentic
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AI retirement planning tools now manage trillions in assets, but a fresh SEC enforcement case shows how easily
AI jury selection tools now score and rank prospective jurors before a trial even starts. Here is what
The Fenix Flexin AI song dispute has turned a Billboard Hot 100 hit into music’s clearest test case
AI couples therapy apps are advising millions of partners, some built directly on Gottman Institute research. Here is