Yann LeCun’s new startup AMI launched with a $1.03 billion seed round to build AI “world models,” betting against the LLM-first approach.

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high-demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based startup Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data centres ...

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and answering questions in natural language, such as English, about data from ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and ...

Through a student-powered initiative called Project FACTS, nine Kensington Health Science Academy seniors are teaching their classmates how to spot AI slop, medical misinformation, and political lies ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...