2025-02-06

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman has left Anthropic after less than a year

Less than a year into his tenure at the company, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is leaving Anthropic. The startup confirmed Schulman’s departure after The Information, Reuters and other publication [...]

2025-02-06

Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers

When it comes to meaningless gestures, macaws try to follow the crowd. [...]

2025-02-06

NASA Is Hosting a Twitch Stream With the ISS: Here's How to Watch

Two astronauts -- one in space, and one on Earth -- will discuss daily life on the ISS, and you can ask them questions in the chat. [...]

2025-02-06

The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?

The UK has transitioned to a lower-emission grid. Now comes the hard part. [...]

2025-02-06

Donald Trump's NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal

The journal’s editorial board includes multiple scientists, such as Trump health nominees Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makary, who opposed Covid public health measures. [...]

2025-02-06

‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others

The idea of a humanlike artificial intelligence assistant that you can speak with has been alive in many people’s imaginations since the release of “Her,” Spike Jonze’s 2013 film about a man w [...]

2025-02-05

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

Tree-mounted sensors and new satellites promise a way to detect wildfires before they get out of hand—but no early detection method is foolproof. [...]

2025-02-05

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday. [...]

2025-02-05

Quantum teleportation used to distribute a calculation

Method allows a single algorithm to be spread across multiple quantum processors. [...]