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The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known ...

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Regan Peng is an AI founder and former senior tech executive, focused on personal AI, ...

Transnational gangs and narco-trafficking networks plaguing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have driven some of the world’s highest homicide rates and displaced over two million people since 2019 ...

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei urges a deliberate slowdown in AI development, emphasizing ...

There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. Artificial intelligence labs are on the verge of handing over the training of A.I. to A.I. We should stop them. There’s a chasm right now between ...

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