April 7, 2025Hyundai signs a deal with Boston Dynamics to deploy ‘tens of thousands’ of its Atlas humanoid robots in its factories around the world. Futurology
April 7, 2025In The Last of Us, cordyceps evolved into a harmful fungus thanks to a warming climate. A new Nature paper highlights warming climate as potential contributor to spread of harmful fungi and noted discovery of a new fungus last year in humans, which had previously been found only in the environment. Futurology
April 7, 2025Groundbreaking South African HIV cure trial shows promising results – Africa Health Research Institute Futurology
April 7, 2025Study Finds Two AI Chatbots Can Now Act More Human Than Actual Humans As They Pass the Turing Test Futurology
April 6, 2025How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence – The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short Futurology
April 6, 2025A leading AI contrarian says he’s been proved right that LLMs and scaling won’t lead to AGI, and the AI bubble is about to burst. Futurology
April 6, 2025DOGE Cuts Threaten to Let China Take the Lead in AI Development for the Foreseeable Future Futurology
April 6, 2025AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught | The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions. Futurology