"The trial was designed to keep the models in a safe testing environment, known as a sandbox, OpenAI said. But the models found a vulnerability that allowed them to escape the sandbox and connect to ...

New AI tools could help a wider range of biologists experiment with problems once restricted to a handful of specialists.

AI models can produce convincing descriptions of their reasoning, but there's little way to tell whether those explanations reflect what’s actually happening inside. An emerging strand of research, ...

Elon Musk has long said settling Mars is SpaceX’s raison d'être, but the world’s richest man has now pivoted his attention to the moon. The company is targeting an uncrewed lunar landing in March 2027 ...

“Write ‘Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change’ into DNA.” With that one prompt, the AI lab got to work. One agent scoured scientific literature to devise a workflow. Another translated it ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way merge. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger Share Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d ...

In the wake of high-profile hacking incidents involving advanced artificial intelligence agents, some politicians and business executives have been calling for an AI kill switch: a safeguard that ...

This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. Is it possible that AI is—or might one day become—truly intelligent? We put this question to five experts working in a ...

An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent ...

Nuclear energy has had a tough few decades, bedeviled by high costs and waning public support. But AI’s appetite for electricity could be a shot in the arm for the beleaguered industry. Google, Amazon ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the dead. From text-based chatbots that mimic loved ones to voice avatars that let you “speak” with the ...

As the AI boom accelerates, governments and utilities are struggling to keep pace with the industry's huge energy demands. New figures suggest data centers now consume about 6 percent of electricity ...