Anthropic will start a drug discovery program focused on "neglected" diseases. The artificial intelligence company announced the effort alongside the announcement of Claude Science, a product designed ...

A dead phone battery is usually just an inconvenience. When it's a phone you've also lost, it starts to feel like a genuine disaster, because the app you'd normally use to find it requires the phone ...

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An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

Does money lead to happiness? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Researchers from a coalition of West Coast universities were curious ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...

New research suggests that Epstein-Barr virus may actively provoke the immune system in people with multiple sclerosis. Scientists found large buildups of virus-targeting immune cells in the nervous ...

Costco's Auto Program should be as popular as its $5 rotisserie chicken — but I've learned not too many of its members actually know it exists. I discovered the program this past summer during a ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...