Bioware says next Mass Effect is still in development despite turmoil at EA

Development on the next Mass Effect is still underway, Mass Effect executive producer Mike Gamble confirmed in a blog post celebrating the series' "N7 Day" fan holiday. Bioware shared t [...]

The best smart scales for 2025

The New Year is here and there’s no better time to kickstart those health and fitness goals. Whether you’re looking to shed a few holiday pounds, track your muscle gains or simply stay on top of a [...]

Man who firebombed Sam Altman's home was likely driven by AI extinction fears

A man threw a firebomb at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home in the middle of the night. The suspect was a member of the PauseAI Discord server and had posted online about AI driving huma [...]

Molotov suspect who attacked Sam Altman's home was likely a Pause AI follower with AI extinction fears

A man threw a firebomb at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home in the middle of the night. The suspect apparently followed the "Pause AI" movement and wrote online about AI drivin [...]

Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI

Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety. In a recent paper, he analyzes scenarios where AI could contribute to human ext [...]

OpenAI calls Stuart Russell a "doomer" in court after its CEO co-signed his AI extinction warning

Fear generates attention, and OpenAI usually knows how to use that. But in court, the company is trying to discredit an AI expert as a doomsday prophet, even though CEO Sam Altman spent years spreadin [...]

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with interactive learning tools as lawsuits and Pentagon backlash mount

OpenAI on Monday launched a set of interactive visual tools inside ChatGPT that let users manipulate mathematical and scientific formulas in real time — a genuinely impressive education feature that [...]

What De-Extinction Means for the Living World

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology cou [...]

The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an [...]