Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change

An outstanding figure in the UK film industry, Thomas was noted for collaborations with directors including Bernardo Bertolucci and David Cronenberg

Bin Laden’s United Airlines team got off to a bad start.

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models

The long read: We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing ...

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

Much-copied and parodied picture captures dynamic between the individuals and the band with eerie perfection

Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer a mainstream activity in most of the world.

Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental i...

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...

For Ross and Rachel Menzies, making peace with our smallness can help us navigate the challenges of human existence

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref...

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on

This bleak but brilliant tale of enigmatic alien entities and slow social collapse exposes the terrifying insecurity of life right now

US defence secretary cancelled appearance at D-day event in Langrune-sur-Mer after protest by residents

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life