2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (556+ words) Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. The new report outlines five real-life case studies in which users “circumvented controls” that block users…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (682+ words) The notice has raised a stir in the mathematics community OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems — seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the world’s brightest…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (593+ words) A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as about 170,000 passengers were stranded by ash drifting across western parts of the country. The volcanic island…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (264+ words) A massive, tree-covered island mysteriously emerged in a remote Canadian reservoir before vanishing from sight just weeks later. Now, the phantom floating landmass has been found again — about 20 miles from its last known location. The floating island on British Columbia’s…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (424+ words) As rescue teams searched for missing people following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border, Earth scientists reviewed satellite imagery for clues to the cause and assessed the devastation. The flooding Wednesday killed hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet, and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) A new study suggests that El Niños — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change. Her study looks back at El Niño events going back 900 years or…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (922+ words) Living in the shadow of the world’s spectacular ice-capped mountains has always carried dangers, but the devastating flood wave that carved a path of destruction on the Nepal-China border this week shows how life for the millions worldwide who live…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) The world's oceans simmered to their hottest temperatures on record over the weekend and are likely to warm even further in the next few months, putting stress on life in the water and on land too, the European climate service…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (254+ words) There is more than a 90% chance that the El Niño event this year will be “very strong,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center released an advisory last week with the latest…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (316+ words) A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, damaging buildings and homes, and triggering a tsunami warning. Authorities urged people on affected coastlines to move to higher ground. Video above | Baby rescued after Colombia earthquake The…...