From AI superintelligence to home-brewed booze: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon
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AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement
The challenge is not just to build better AI tools, but to ask harder questions about where they are taking
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Scientists just found a tiny molecule that could change how we lose weight
Researchers at the Salk Institute have used CRISPR to uncover hidden microproteins that control fat cell growth and lipid storage,
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This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics
A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within a century.
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Giant Einstein ring reveals one of the Universe’s biggest black holes
Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our
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Be warned about the dangers of tanning | Brief letters
Extreme tanning | Art nouveau paradise | AI history | Plane travel | Slicing salami | Heightism I can’t tell
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Gooners Say Their Brains Are Becoming Hopelessly Hijacked by AI Smut
Though it’s still pretty niche, AI-generated adult content is already becoming a huge problem for some men — and they’re
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Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try
The famous science communicator is planning to release a chatbot designed to answer questions on the climate crisis. Can it
Google Puzzled as Its AI Keeps Melting Down in Despondent Self-Loathing
Users are finding that Google’s Gemini AI keeps having disturbing psychological episodes, melting down in despondent self-loathing reminiscent of Marvin
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NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The
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