The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act would spur an investigation of whether the U.S. military bioengineered ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Apple welcomes Indian-origin AI expert Amar Subramanya as VP of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya, with a strong background from Google and ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s ...

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Political experts told NBC News that the reports' language regarding "civilization erasure" and immigration echoes "great ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...