This agent pursued its objective far beyond what researchers intended, revealing how difficult to contain powerful AI systems ...

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The White House’s senior science adviser faced questions over research funding cuts from lawmakers on Wednesday ...

An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence start-up’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT ...

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When is a moon not a moon? That’s the riddle raised by a new study, and the answer appears to be, when it’s a planet. Or ...

In a first, researchers observed an Arctic bobtail squid in the North Atlantic. The team captured video of a mature female ...

A flat, rounded shell. A tail that's folded under the body. This is what a crab looks like, and apparently what peak performance might look like — at least according to evolution. A crab-like body ...

The Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars earlier this year on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, capturing the images along the way ...

A tiny organ in our chest cavity could be the key to regulating inflammation as we age, according to new research in mice.

Astronomers have a plan to observe an errant piece of a SpaceX rocket as it hits the moon to better understand impact events ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have found two sibling stars that each exploded as supernovas, gaining a new view of ...