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Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.
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In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."
James Webb Space Telescope

A woman from Virginia using OpenAI's ChatGPT won $150,000 and is now donating the entire check to charity.
Ethics

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.
Robotics

A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.
Artificial Intelligence

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.
Viruses

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.
Artificial Intelligence

The virtual assistant Diella's "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament was met with mixed enthusiasm by officials.
Artificial Intelligence

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.
Black Holes

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently claimed that AI is effecting the labor force, potentially impacting future rate cuts.
Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming," but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.
OpenAI

The possibility of Microsoft being made obsolete as it races to keep up is something that keeps CEO Satya Nadella up at night.
Artificial Intelligence

These "SMS blasters" can trick your phone into connecting to them, bombarding anyone in the vicinity with scam texts.
Cybersecurity

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said he's been vibe coding and showing the results to his company's engineers.
Artificial Intelligence

This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should be halted.
Biology

As Elon Musk promises his cars "can drive themselves," Tesla owners warn that their cars keep driving straight into oncoming trains.
Self-Driving Vehicles

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

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