When a group of researchers at Northeastern University's Bau Lab began toying with a new kind of autonomous artificial intelligence "agent," it was supposed to be a fun weekend experiment. Instead, ...

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super Bowl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discord will soon be expanding teen safety protections worldwide including teen-by-default settings and age assurance designed to ...

Discord servers can be pretty crowded, and it’s easy for your messages to not get attention. Hence, many Discord users use text formatting options to make their messages stand out from the crowd. If ...

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it. The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI ...

Agentic AI is driving innovation in Generative AI, and Microsoft 365 Copilot's Agents feature offers a hands-on way to explore it. Prompt Coach helps users craft structured, effective prompts using ...

YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced on Wednesday that ...

Grok's image generation restricted to paid subscribers after backlash Standalone Grok app and tab on X still allow image generation without subscription European lawmakers have urged legal action over ...

Elon Musk's xAI faced backlash for recent Grok chatbot posts of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized images of children on X. The company responded to a request for comment with an autoreply: ...

Many people think that getting someone to say "yes" is about persuasion, making the perfect argument, choosing the right words, or asking nicely. But decades of research suggest something ...

When the U.S. gambling laws loosened in 2018, the many and various ways it would destroy people’s lives were widely predicted. It wasn’t hard to guess: you just had to look at every other country ...