Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope.

"In recently aired podcasts, interviews, and private investor meetings, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has described his desire to turn ChatGPT into a proactive, always-on AI agent. ...'There’s like a single ...

Last week, Australia's Fair Work Commission ruled Gregory Baker, a computing academic at Macquarie University, should be treated as an ongoing, part-time employee, after the university had earlier ...

Our cherished memories may be more resilient than previously thought. Long-term memories are stored in synapses, the connections between neurons. These structures sit on tiny protrusions called ...

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. Five years is an eternity for brain organoids. Also called mini brains, these ...

You might assume scrapping a brand new car would be terrible for the environment, but it depends on what you replace it with. New research suggests replacing a gas car with an electric vehicle can cut ...

Increasingly, companies are building humanoid robots that perform impressive athletic feats to mark the field’s progress. Now, Chinese robotics company Unitree says its new "Superman" robot can run 12 ...

When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica in 2025, it was the strongest storm ever to hit the island. The hurricane’s rapid intensification left forecasters stunned. When it comes to ...

"Transformers are starting to show their age. Many of the recent advances in LLMs, such as the development of so-called reasoning models and their ability to handle large amounts of input at once, are ...

Jeanne Calment was over 122 years old when she passed away. The oldest person in history, she smoked for nearly a century, but never developed cancer. Why does cancer grow, spread, and become deadly ...

"Gabe Weil of the Institute for Law and AI, in Massachusetts, proposes a system of strict liability. As with rules around keeping wild animals, it would assume that any harm is always the fault of the ...