Secretary general says the risks posed by artificial intelligence threatens democracy and human rights. The United Nations secretary general has warned that artificial intelligence (AI)…
EXPLAINERSome 7,000 Reddit communities, totalling hundreds of millions of subscribers, are protesting against new API pricing changes that could kill off third-party apps. From June…
As tech bosses raise the doomsday alarm, others say it’s a distraction from AI’s real, less sensational dangers. Source link
Female crocodile lived in isolation for some 16 years at Costa Rica zoo before producing egg with fully-formed fetus. Scientists have documented the first-known instance…
Amid an AI boom, the US chipmaker has added more than $500bn in value since the start of 2023. See how it compares with other…
UFO panel members say online abuse has been directed at their work to investigate the unexplained. NASA has held its first public meeting on UFOs…
Saudi Arabia’s Rayyanah Barnawi, a biomedical scientist in cancer research, has become the first Arab woman sent into orbit. A private space flight carrying a…
China has sent a three-person crew, including a civilian for the first time, to join its orbiting space station, as it pursues plans to send…
A study has identified more than 5,000 new species living in deep-sea habitats in the Pacific Ocean in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone…
United States regulators have given approval for Elon Musk’s start-up Neuralink to test its brain implants on people. Neuralink said on Thursday that it received…
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, Volt Typhoon, accused of carrying out cyber-espionage on US targets. The US State Department has warned that China is capable of…
US company dominates market for chips used to power ChatGPT and many similar services, a key reason behind its stock surge. Nvidia Corp stock has…
Anatoly Maslov, 76, and two colleagues from the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM) are accused of treason. The first of three Russian…
Shelters in the US territory are beginning to fill in anticipation of a powerful storm named Typhoon Mawar. Authorities on the island of Guam have…
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been fined a record $1.3bn for violating European Union data protection laws. Regulators on Monday found the tech giant unlawfully…
The contract is a milestone for Bezos’s space company after it lost a previous lunar-landing bid to competitor SpaceX. The United States federal space agency…
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed into law a measure to severely restrict the app TikTok, making his state the first to enact a near-total…
Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, testified before members of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday about the need to regulate the increasingly powerful…
Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, has told legislators in the United States that government regulation of artificial intelligence is “critical” because of…
Florida university professor says he will remain underwater until he reaches 100 days and completes a research mission. A university professor in the United States…