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I'm developing a TV series with the BBC, which has been an ongoing project for many years that I'm so excited about. Then I have a movie in development as well with Amazon MGM and Ryan Pictures. That's kind of like my own romcom.You play…

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design safe and effective drugs is about to be put to the test.Isomorphic Labs, the UK-based biotech spinoff…

I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as well as my standard utilities and recurring expenses, the chatbot drafted a few solid options, and I tweaked them into…

If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know today to save China from its unglorious…

Lego-style propaganda videos alleging war crimes are flooding online feeds, echoing the White House’s own turn toward cryptic teaser clips and meme-native visuals. This is not just content drift. It is a new front in the information war,…

The Internal Revenue Service paid Palantir $1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool designed to help the tax agency identify the “highest-value” cases for audits, collection of unpaid taxes, and potential criminal investigations,…

When I first mounted Amazon's new Echo Show 15 on my kitchen wall, I was enthusiastic about its potential as a hands-free entertainment device. I enjoy listening to music or playing YouTube videos in the background as I’m cooking dinner. So…

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications.Smack Technologies, which announced a $32 million funding…

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress.The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed through an IV drip and into his…

The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of conscious AI into public awareness for a news cycle or two, but it also launched a conversation, among both computer scientists and…