15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (593+ words) Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the top-secret Los Alamos, N.M. lab that designed and built the atomic bomb, was one of the most complex, morally ambivalent Americans in history. Like many intellectuals in the 1930s, he rejected capitalism and searched for…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1638+ words) Building a quantum computer is one thing. Showing that it is genuinely using quantum mechanics is another. A new experiment, just published in Nature Communications, takes a fresh approach to that question. Instead of relying on entanglement or the complex…...

4+ day, 10+ min ago   (186+ words) Analytics Insight AI Pioneers Who Shaped the Artificial Intelligence Revolution Alan Turing - Introduced foundational ideas about machine intelligence and proposed the Turing Test, shaping early discussions about whether machines could think. John McCarthy - Coined the term artificial intelligence in 1956 and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (322+ words) Scientists have discovered dozens of peer-reviewed papers containing a completely fabricated term that does not exist in scientific discourse. It originated from errors in optical character recognition and machine translation and later entered databases used to train AI models, according…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (290+ words) Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1062+ words) A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (55+ words) “It’s not cheating, it’s quiet efficiency”: What is AI watermarking, and how should we respond to it? digitalinformationworld.com “It’s not cheating, it’s quiet efficiency”: What is AI watermarking, and how should we respond to it? How does AI watermarking…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1040+ words) On 2 August 2026, the European Union’s new AI transparency rules came into force. Under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, text generated by AI will need to be marked so that it can be more easily detected. Anthropic is the first…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (463+ words) OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published Jakub Pachocki An Alien Mind on September 6, 2026 to warn that reasoning models are accelerating toward recursive self-improvement. He traces that conviction to a night in mid-2023 inside the RLSlow project, when scaling let pretrained models…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1634+ words) More regulations, rules, and requirements are smothering what's left of us. American users who never asked for it are getting it anyway. That last part is especially strange. Europe demanded a way to identify AI-generated text, and an American developer…...