Technology

In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge

The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”

The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by low-quality studies

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

Independent auditors are emerging as a key part of plans to rein in frontier AI. But the systems are evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate them

Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped

Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it

A high-ranking official announced yesterday that the U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit to counter threats from Russia and China

After decades of hype, directed-energy weapons may offer the U.S. military a cheaper answer to the expensive problem of stopping drones