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The "singularity point," which represents the moment when AI becomes better at generating results than humans can, might have been reached, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies that underpin the AI economy — everything from data…
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological design As artificial intelligence rapidly…
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.
My wife’s niece (my niece-in-law?) graduated from college in the US this year.
Makkah, Saudi Arabia — Umm Al-Qura University won several awards in the finals of the 2026 International Artificial Intelligence in Education Competition, held in Hong Kong.
Buraidah, Saudi Arabia — Qassim University, through its Deanship of Student Affairs, is organizing an intensive two-hour training program in generative artificial intelligence.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet.
In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer.
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.
“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”
At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart…
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y A controlled study of large language model agents across 260 configurations shows when multi-agent…
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
The rush to colonise the heavens says more about the urge to flee Earth than to save it. Its real worth may lie a good deal closer to home.
Science correspondent Nicola Davis investigates the strange story of Tam O’Braan and his attempts to grow tea in Scotland.
A podcast with Florian Brand.
The science says Congress is getting it wrong
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG's webOS store allow…
When I ask a friend for restaurant recommendations, I’m rarely asking for something as cut and dry as the operating hours, dress code intel, or whether it’s cash-only — all of that’s helpful, but also…
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
An MIT-led team used bright radio bursts to illuminate a vast source of matter that was previously unaccounted for.
A study of more than 120 million trips finds that Americans' rush to save time on the road comes at an outsize environmental cost.
Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI.
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Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
AI is helping solo developers thrive in Turkey’s gaming industry, but writers, artists, and junior programmers are being left behind.
More than 5,100 people in Germany died from heat-related causes this year until the end of June, the Robert Koch Institute reports.
Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the past 60 years, though, humans have bled it nearly dry irrigating cotton…
In this episode of Large Format, Zavala’s Barbecue in Grand Prairie, Texas, handles an influx of 3 million tourists visiting the town for FIFA’s 2026 World Cup by staying open for 30 days straight — a…
Wildfires are raging across Europe, Canada and beyond. To successfully fight these fires, speed is essential. A German startup uses satellite data and AI to spot fires early.
Don’t want your chatbot conversations to be used for AI training? Here’s what to do.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
Europe trails the US and China in artificial intelligence. Economist and Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion says better research funding, venture capital and AI innovation can help it catch up.
Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.
Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.
OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT; is the company abandoning the chat category they pioneered?
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 14 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01271-3 Realigning AI technology towards the Sustainable Development Goals
