Nine Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
Science seldom works in straight lines. Sometimes it’s “applied” to solve specific problems: Let’s put people on the moon; we need a Covid vaccine. Much of the time it’s “basic,”…
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Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, recently told President Trump during a private phone call that it would arrive before the end of his administration. Dario Amodei, the chief…
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Can ChatGPT pass the Turing Test? What the research says.
Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are getting a whole lot smarter, a whole lot more natural, and a whole lot more…human-like. It makes sense — humans are the ones creating…
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A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era
On a frigid day in early January, as she worked in her office in the Boston suburb of Billerica, Mass., Siyu Huang received a two-word text message. “Spinning wheels,” it…
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Legal Research Service Decisis Makes Inroads Against Fastcase As It Expands to 20 Bar Associations
Decisis, the legal research service that LexisNexis parent RELX launched in 2021 to compete against Fastcase for a share of the bar association partnership business, has expanded over just the…
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ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code
OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research,…
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Only 8% of Americans would pay extra for AI, according to ZDNET-Aberdeen research
ZDNET If one listens casually to the discourse around generative AI today, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that everyone is clamoring for more AI capabilities and…
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Vals AI Issues Open Call for Vendors to Participate In Its Legal Research and Other Legal AI Benchmarking Studies
Vals AI has put out an open call for legal technology vendors to participate in its legal AI benchmarking studies, including its upcoming evaluation of U.S. legal research tools. Readers…
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Trump Executive Order Restricts ‘Gain of Function’ Research on Pathogens
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening to further restrict experiments on pathogens and toxins that could make them more harmful. For over a decade, scientists have debated…
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Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents of newborns to “do your own research” before vaccinating their infants during a televised interview in which he also suggested the measles…
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If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should help people, rather than disempower or replace…
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Harvard sues Trump administration following $2.2 billion research funding freeze – JURIST
Harvard University filed a lawsuit in US federal court on Monday seeking to block the Trump Administration’s freeze on more than $2.2 billion in federal research funding to the university,…
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Reminding women of gender gaps in the workplace could encourage them to apply for more leadership roles, Wharton research finds
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Modern workplaces are suffering from a real but quiet crisis in our social structures. To rebuild connection is starts with asking for help. The post Research Shows 1 Overlooked Behavior…
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SCOTUS dispatch: reflections on FCC v. Consumers’ Research – JURIST
Central to FCC v. Consumers’ Research is technology that props up nearly every aspect of modern life: broadband internet. The Universal Service Fund (USF) is among a set of policies…
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Get ‘Balance of Speed and Quality’ From Claude AI Model’s Research Responses
Image: Anthropic Anthropic has introduced a new Research function in its Claude artificial intelligence model, enabling the system to autonomously perform multi-step investigations. Claude can deliver a well-reasoned response with…
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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics
On Thursday, researchers unveiled the most precise measurement yet of a neutrino, scaling down the maximum possible mass of the ghostly specks of matter that permeate our universe. The result,…
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Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding
A federal judge permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from limiting funding from the National Institutes of Health that supports research at universities and academic medical centers, restoring billions…
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This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead
The year is 2027. Powerful artificial intelligence systems are becoming smarter than humans, and are wreaking havoc on the global order. Chinese spies have stolen America’s A.I. secrets, and the…
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Possible cuts to HIV prevention could be deadly, healthcare providers say
Statements from the Trump administration that officials are considering cuts to key programs for the prevention of HIV and AIDS are generating outrage among two of the largest LGBTQ+ service…
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