Two C-suite executives and several senior staff have recently departed Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup.

Artificial intelligence is advancing so quickly that some researchers now argue humanity could cross a historic threshold in just a few years, when machines match or exceed human cognitive abilities ...

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the “posthuman transition” — a mind-bending exercise in imagining a future in which humanity willfully hands over power, or perhaps ...

Humanity often imagines the end of the world as the end of everything, but Earth is far more resilient than we are. If humans vanished, ecosystems would adapt, cities would decay, and new balances ...

In a lengthy essay published this month, Dario Amodei argues that humanity is entering a dangerous phase of AI development.

How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific sesamoid bone in a hummingbird? Can you identify closed syllables in Biblical ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...