Artificial intelligence (AI) news, features and articles
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AI hallucinations work both ways, study shows — using chatbots can amplify and reinforce our own delusionsResearch reveals the sycophantic nature of generative AI is inadvertently creating a form of distributed delusions.
By Peter Ray Allison Published
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Humans are being replaced by machines in the food supply chain — and it's leading to truckloads of wasteA researcher explores how AI is being used to optimize food delivery, which may not always be a good thing.
By Mohammed F. Alzuhair Published
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Anthropic collides with the Pentagon over AI safety — here's everything you need to knowAs Anthropic releases its most autonomous agents yet, a mounting clash with the military reveals the impossible choice between global scaling and a "safety first" ethos.
By Deni Ellis Béchard Published
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Scientists made AI agents ruder — and they performed better at complex reasoning tasksA new project allowed AI chatbots to interrupt, stay silent or speak up the way humans do in conversation, and it made them smarter and more accurate.
By Drew Turney Published
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Acing this new AI exam — which its creators say is the toughest in the world — might point to the first signs of AGIHumanity’s Last Exam is a PhD-level benchmark designed to test the limits of AI reasoning. Although Google’s Gemini 3 scored a staggering 48.4%, experts stress that this does not indicate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
By Tristan Greene Published
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Your own voice could be your biggest privacy threat. How can we stop AI technologies exploiting it?Voices contain countless cues about their owners, and new research suggests that computers might use them to facilitate a range of bad behaviors.
By Drew Turney Published
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AI griefbots could change how we mourn — but there are serious risks aheadA researcher from the University of Essex dives into the philosophical and ethical questions surrounding "deathbots."
By James Muldoon Published
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How well can AI and humans work together? Scientists are turning to Dungeons & Dragons to find outD&D is being used as a benchmark to see how well models can make long-term plans, adhere to rules and strategize with a team.
By Alan Bradley Published
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What is Moltbook? A social network for AI threatens a 'total purge' of humanity — but some experts say it's a hoaxA new social networking site exclusively for bots has sparked claims of AI inventing its own religion and plotting humanity's downfall. But experts say its real dangers lie elsewhere.
By Ben Turner Published
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