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When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

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American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil has long argued that the singularity would likely occur around the middle of the 21st century, and with the rise of AI, his predictions are ...

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The study examined 52 human brain samples from 2016 and 2024, all taken from the frontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for judgment, decision making, and muscle movement.

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Dombroskie says, though, that humans likely can’t pick up on any mating scents—just the self-defense ones. “They're trying to dissuade us from eating them,” he says.

A recent experiment from Anthropic shows just how strange things can get when an AI agent tries to do a human job. In ...