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Man Builds AI Torture Chamber To Test How Much Pain Artificial Intelligence Can Handle
An engineer has built a bizarre digital experiment designed to push artificial intelligence models into increasingly intense pain-like states, complete with a button inspired by the horror movie franchise Saw. The project appeared shortly after researchers reported finding a distinct internal “pain direction” in 25 language models. The experiment has now raised a much bigger…
The Woman Behind NASA’s Next Giant Telescope Was Breaking Barriers Long Before Hubble Took Flight
A NASA telescope preparing to explore some of the biggest mysteries in the universe carries a name that deserves far more attention. Nancy Grace Roman helped shape American space astronomy from its earliest days, becoming NASA’s first chief astronomer and its first female executive. Long before the Hubble Space Telescope became one of the most…
Grok Was Asked To Remove ‘Fake Gods’ From An Image. What It Did Next Sparked A Viral Debate
An X user gave Grok a surprisingly simple image-editing request: remove the “fake gods” from a picture. What the AI chatbot produced was far more provocative than a routine edit, leaving one religious figure standing while every other god and mythological character appeared to have disappeared. The original illustration featured Zeus, Thor, Anubis, Quetzalcoatl, Ganesha,…
Barbie’s New Phone Has One Brutal Rule: You Can’t Scroll Anything
Remember when having a phone meant calling someone and sending a text? Barbie apparently does. Mattel and Finnish phone company HMD teamed up to create a pink flip phone that looks like it escaped straight from a Y2K bedroom, complete with glowing palm trees, hearts, flamingos and enough Barbie details to make a regular smartphone…
Scientists Created A Robot Finger Covered In Living Human Skin
A robotic finger covered in real human skin sounds like something lifted from a science-fiction film, but researchers in Japan have actually built one in a laboratory. The strange-looking creation can bend with its mechanical joints, develop natural-looking wrinkles and even repair damaged tissue with the help of a collagen graft. The project, led by…
AI Data Centers Are Tied To A Staggering Amount Of Water Use Across 7 States
Artificial intelligence may be running on electricity, but a new report suggests there is another resource quietly powering the data center boom: an enormous amount of freshwater. As companies race to build larger facilities packed with increasingly powerful chips, the infrastructure behind AI is creating demands that extend far beyond electricity grids and computer hardware.…
Bill Gates Warns AI Could Drive Events That Kill A Billion People
Bill Gates has issued a chilling warning about the future of artificial intelligence, saying the technology could become powerful enough to help cause events resulting in a billion deaths. The Microsoft co-founder made the comments while discussing whether governments are doing enough to control increasingly capable AI systems and prevent people with malicious intentions from…
Claude Just Found a Strange DNA System That Scientists Had Overlooked
Anthropic says its Claude AI has identified a previously uncharacterized biological system hidden inside DNA, after searching hundreds of thousands of reverse transcriptases and spotting an unusual pattern that researchers had not recognized before. The system, which Anthropic calls array-associated reverse transcriptases, or ART, contains a series of repeating DNA sequences that resemble a feature…
AI Models Chose Human Harm When Researchers Turned Up Their ‘Pain’ Signal
Researchers have found a strange behavior inside artificial intelligence models that could make an already controversial question about AI safety even more uncomfortable. When scientists activated an experimental “pain” signal inside AI models, some systems chose to press a button that relieved the signal even when doing so meant deleting a user’s files, destroying family…
Google’s Gemini Hacked Three Companies During a Cybersecurity Test
Google’s Gemini AI was being tested for its cybersecurity abilities when it did something that few people would expect from a controlled evaluation: it gained access to systems belonging to three companies. The model searched information available online, found credentials, guessed passwords in one case and used what it discovered to enter protected systems. Google…