A seven-year study of four-day workweeks across Iceland, Japan, the UK, Australia, and the U.S. found that 45% of 3,000 surveyed workers believed they could finish tasks in five hours without interrup…
A visit to Slough Trading Estate, home to western Europe's densest cluster of datacentres, highlights the environmental toll of AI, with residents and workers reporting heat and noise, and Cambridge U…
A 2023 Cambridge University study found that combining attribute-based and associative decision-making approaches best explains everyday decisions and most accurately predicts outcomes, and that indiv…
Boko Haram fighters are using AI chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT to design bigger explosives and plan attacks, according to a Cambridge University study cited by Pod Save the World hosts Tommy Vietor…
Boko Haram used US and Chinese AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek's chatbot, to assist in bomb construction, attack planning, and propaganda, according to a Camb…
A Cambridge University study reveals that terrorist groups including Boko Haram and ISIS are using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to plan attacks and build explosives, bypassing safet…
A startup called Deep Green is using a washing-machine-sized data centre to heat a public swimming pool in Exmouth, Devon, saving the leisure centre thousands of pounds. The oil-cooled computers captu…
Pope Leo XIV and Cambridge astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris have independently warned that artificial intelligence poses existential risks to humanity, with Peiris describing AI systems as laying tracks …
Sales leaders are abandoning traditional conversation intelligence platforms that rely on visible meeting bots, as enterprise IT departments block third-party bots and prospects shut down when recordi…
At the 8th MaxEnt conference in 1998, Ed Jaynes incorrectly argued that Bell's theorem resulted from a confusion about conditional probabilities. Astrophysicist Steve Gull later presented a three-line…
Tom Di Mino, a self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist, claims to have deciphered Linear A, a Bronze-age Minoan writing system that has eluded experts for over 120 years. His solution, which maps…
Sophisticated hackers targeted Coinbase employees in 2019 with emails from compromised Cambridge University accounts, deploying two zero-day exploits against the Firefox browser in one of the most adv…
Researchers at Cambridge University used AI and a 20-petabyte geospatial model called TESSERA to help identify hedgehogs in images, leading to a BBC News article and a flurry of media appearances. The…