In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’

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Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here

Trump officials and Republicans are rolling back protections against heat-related illnesses and deaths

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What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the ‘million dollar question’

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Exclusive: Restoration work at Bath Assembly Rooms unearths Roman ditches containing pottery, coins and fragments of a military helmet

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of disease

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.

Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses have washed up along state’s coastline according to analysis of citizen scientist records

Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory

Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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Julia Curlee, a former senior CIA officer, speaks on Trump administration’s purge of national security staff, attacks on DEI and failures in Iran war

Decision allows states to send ballots under process followed for years even as president tried to limit system

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