Peter Thiel occupies an unusual position in the modern technology industry. A billionaire entrepreneur who helped establish PayPal, financed Facebook in its infancy and founded the data analytics company Palantir, he has
AI might one day help slash carbon emissions—but right now, it’s doing the opposite. A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), covered in MIT Technology Review, suggests AI could eventually
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The rise of AI companions—personalized bots designed to serve as friends, cheerleaders, or even romantic partners—has raised alarm bells among lawmakers and experts alike, who warn that these digital entities could represent
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MIT Technology Review reports a looming shift in cybercrime tactics as AI agents begin to demonstrate hacking potential. AI agents — the next generation of intelligent assistants capable of planning, reasoning, and
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The artificial intelligence landscape in 2025 is more dynamic — and competitive — than ever before. According to the newly released AI Index Report 2025 from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI,
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way science is conducted—but not without raising serious concerns. According to a recent report in Nature, the proportion of scientific papers using AI across 20 different
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Leading UK universities are struggling to detect and penalize students using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat, despite widespread use of AI tools like ChatGPT for academic purposes. A new report reveals that
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen rapid growth, transforming industries and daily life. From chatbots to advanced generative models, AI’s capabilities continue to expand, driven by powerful companies investing heavily in research and
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In a brightly lit classroom at an autism rehabilitation center, a three-year-old boy named Haohao (pseudonym) took a small but significant step—uttering a faint “i” sound while gazing into a mirror. Encouraged
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Intel’s newly appointed chief executive, Lip-Bu Tan, has vowed to implement a sweeping cultural shift at the semiconductor giant, likening the transformation to a “day-one start-up” mentality. Speaking at a company conference
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Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Zone, marking another step in the tech giant’s gradual retreat from China as geopolitical tensions between the US and
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition was confirmed in a post on X,
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The term ‘open source’ has long been associated with transparency, collaboration, and free access to software. However, as Nature recently highlighted, many AI companies are misusing this label, undermining the very principles
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A groundbreaking study by AI firm Anthropic has provided a rare glimpse into the inner workings of large language models (LLMs), shedding light on how they generate responses and revealing surprising behaviors.
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Finally, equality has arrived. Artificial intelligence greatly empowers scammers and malevolent uses of the Internet. Malwarebytes provides updates on the latest threats. The digital revolution and artificial intelligence are not only the
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AlphaFold, the revolutionary AI model for predicting protein structures, is facing a significant challenge due to a shortage of data. While AlphaFold 3 has proven to be a game-changer in drug discovery
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