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This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human

Bland AI’s customer services and sales bot is the latest example of “human-washi...

French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Elec...

With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard lef...

OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI

Having humans rate a language model’s outputs produced clever chatbots. OpenAI s...

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scrap...

AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup...

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is...

Gutted of civil rights protections by Democrats to woo pro-business Republicans,...

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch The...

Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detectin...

NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Ar...

Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high in...

Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating...

Rhino horns injected with radioactive material in bid t...

South Africa is home to a large majority of the world's rhinos and as such is a ...

Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously...

Toxic air kills over half a million children every year, yet only once has air p...

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes an...

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally...

How accurate are gunshot detection systems, really? For years, it's been a secre...

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Tra...

The most notorious deepfake sexual abuse website is hosting altered videos origi...

Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain

Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—an...

Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figu...

Apple Hits a Major Roadblock as EU Targets App Store

Apple has been warned that its App Store is in breach of EU rules, and has backt...