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How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth

Zhang exhaled. She had recently quit her stable job as a product manager at a major tech company to start her own business, and she now felt validated. For years, she turned... Read more »

The evolution of AI: From AlphaGo to AI agents, physical AI, and beyond

Experience the latest in AI innovation. Join Microsoft at the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference. Learn more and register. The critical moment of ChatGPT The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022... Read more »

The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s latest model

Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in... Read more »

An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage

When researchers ask to study the skeletons, Borrini will find out whether the research will somehow alter them. “If there is destructive sampling, we need to guarantee that the destruction will be... Read more »

An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots

Ex-Human pointed to Botify AI’s terms of service, which state that the platform cannot be used in ways that violate applicable laws. “We are working on making our content moderation guidelines more... Read more »

OpenAI just released GPT-4.5 and says it is its biggest and best chat model yet

Unlike reasoning models, such as o1 and o3, which work through answers step by step, normal large language models like GPT-4.5 spit out the first response they come up with. But GPT-4.5... Read more »

How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass

“It’s an extraordinary finding,” says Matteo Borrini, a forensic anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who was not involved in the research. “It tells us how [brain] preservation can... Read more »

The Download: Amazon’s quantum chip, and preventing battery fires

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 An unidentified disease has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAnd health officials aren’t... Read more »

Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut

The hardware savings also stem from AWS’s careful implementation of an operation known as a C-NOT gate, which is performed during error correction. Amazon’s researchers showed that the C-NOT operation did not... Read more »

The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.

The reignition is yet another reminder of how difficult fires in lithium-ion batteries can be to deal with. They burn hotter than other fires—and even when it looks as if the danger... Read more »