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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity I...

Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices...

My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now

Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to t...

Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to F...

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. Th...

Chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to treat ailments...

Scientists monitoring 51 chimpanzees saw sick or injured animals eating certain ...

When Was the Last Time You Finished a Book? You Need an...

Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Lena Dunham, Garth Greenwell, Roxane Gay: We’ve a...

Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Ant...

Microsoft and Google have taught dozens of political groups how to use generativ...

We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google....

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-p...

European lynx species rebounds from brink of extinction

In 2001, there were only 62 mature Iberian lynx on the Iberian Peninsula.

Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneur...

Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Th...

The humble potato is a miraculous vegetable, but Americans are eating less of th...

Neo-Nazis Are All-In On AI

Extremists are developing their own hateful AIs to supercharge radicalization an...

Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creat...

Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users’ content will be treated, afte...

Family's genes offer new clue to delaying Alzheimer's d...

Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer's have...

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accuse...

How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty

To understand how to take a match-winning penalty, you’ve got to understand the ...