Anthropic has opened a controlled route for outside researchers to study how people use Claude, giving Stanford University, Oxford University and METR aggregated findings from about 750,000 conversati…
Oxford University's St Hugh's College found the price of updating its math department computer lab had nearly doubled, a cost increase that Oxford professor of mathematical finance Rama Cont attribute…
Secondhand book sales are booming, with independent booksellers reporting unusual bulk orders, and the surge is suspected to be driven by AI companies acquiring books for training large language model…
Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, urges those worried about AI-related cybersecurity risks to adopt scientific methods, asking for specific cost estimates and stock short positions…
Salience Labs, a startup spun out of Oxford University and the University of Münster, has built an optical circuit switch based entirely on silicon photonics technology that it says can reconfigure po…
Physicist Roger Penrose argues that consciousness cannot be produced by algorithmic computation and requires undiscovered physics, according to a Space Daily feature on his Orchestrated Objective Redu…
Headlong's production of Karel Čapek's 1920 play RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots, adapted by Ella Road, opens at Oxford's Schwarzman Centre, using research from Oxford University academics to explore t…
Google reported an all-time high in search queries, but referral traffic to publishers is declining sharply, with expectations of a 40% drop in the next three years. AI search engines rely on retrieva…
Data centers use less water than golf courses and less energy than U.S. refrigerators, experts say, countering claims that they are environmental guzzlers. Critics have exaggerated consumption, with o…