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'Neuroergonomics' aims to monitor workers' brains to boost productivity. Is that... okay?
Neurotechnology raises many high-stakes ethical questions. Setting ground rules could help protect workers and ensure that tasks are adapted to the person, rather than the other way around.
Why is DeepSeek such a game-changer? Scientists explain how the AI models work and why they were so cheap to build.
DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models took the world by storm this week. Here's why they're such a big deal.
Alibaba claims its AI model trounces DeepSeek and OpenAI competitors
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba says that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 smashes the sound barrier — becoming the 1st civil aircraft to go supersonic in US history
By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger travel.
DeepSeek stuns tech industry with new AI image generator that beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released a new image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, which the company says is better than competitors.
New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say
An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.
Scientists propose making AI suffer to see if it's sentient
A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.
Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.
DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.
