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On Wednesday, Antropic released a revised version of the Claude Constitution. This is a living document that provides a “holistic” explanation of “the context in which Claude operates and the kind of existence we want him to have.” The document was released on the sidelines of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Anthropic has long differentiated itself from its competitors through a system it calls “Constitutional AI.” It’s a system in which the company’s chatbot, Claude, is trained using specific ethical principles rather than human feedback. Anthropic first published those principles, the Claude Constitution,…

Online advice to “touch grass” to calm your emotional state may be backed up by science, at least in lab mice.A recent study found that mice that live outdoors are less anxious than mice that spend their days in secure shoebox-sized cages. And that could ultimately highlight fundamental flaws in laboratory research, including research used to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs in humans.Drugs that seem to work in lab mice don’t necessarily work in human patients, and some scientists believe that drugs can fail because of how strange and isolating life in the lab is for rodents. you…

European consumers are firing back at the United States after President Trump threatened to seize control of the Danish territory of Greenland. As a result, two mobile apps that offer ways to see if a product is American-made and suggest local alternatives have rocketed to the top of the Danish App Store in recent days. The Danish App Store serves users in both Greenland and Denmark, and the same is true for Google Play. The increase in downloads comes as Danish consumers have organized a grassroots boycott of American products, including canceling vacations in the United States and dropping subscriptions…

AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted to the prestigious Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS) held in San Diego last month. The company discovered 100 hallucinatory citations across 51 papers and confirmed them to be fake, the company told TechCrunch. Having a paper accepted by NeurIPS is a resume-worthy accomplishment in the world of AI. Given that they are leading experts in AI research, one might assume that they would use LLM for the devastatingly boring task of writing citations. Therefore, this finding requires a lot of caution. The 100 identified hallucination citations across 51 papers are…

Two elite tombs from the Roman Republic, dating back more than 2,400 years, have been unearthed near Via Pietralata in the northeast of modern-day Rome.The tombs in the burial chamber were together inside a funerary complex and near what may have been a temple to the Greek demigod Hercules, who was a popular symbol of protection for the Romans. The excavations include an ancient road and two large monumental basins or tanks that may have been used for sacred rituals.These discoveries reveal that Rome’s suburbs “are a treasure trove of deep memories that have yet to be explored,” Daniela Polo,…

U.S. autonomous drone delivery and logistics startup Zipline announced Wednesday that it will begin operations in Houston and Phoenix early this year as part of its expansion with $600 million in new investment. The round, which valued the company at $7.6 billion, will be used to expand into at least four U.S. states in 2026, the company said. Several existing and new investors participated in the funding round, including Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global. Founded in 2014, Zipline has developed a unique drone delivery ecosystem that includes logistics software, takeoff and landing…

Alcatraz prisoners once risked the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay to escape from the island’s maximum security prison. Now, for the first time, a clever coyote has been photographed swimming the other way, all the way to Alcatraz Island.Video posted on social media shows a coyote (Canis latrans) paddling to the southern tip of Alcatraz Island as the sun sets over the bay. The coyote then struggled against the island’s rocky shoreline, visibly shaken and exhausted.Stanley Gehrt, a professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University and author of “The Coyote Among Us,” said he was shocked and surprised…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released stunning time-lapse footage of three solar explosions exploding from the sun into space during an “artificial solar eclipse.” Unique footage captured by the newly operational Proba 3 mission could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries surrounding our home planet, researchers say.The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft, called Coronagraph and Occulter, and was launched into a highly elliptical orbit around Earth in December 2024. By perfectly aligning the coronagraph behind the occulter, scientists will be able to observe the Sun with its bright center completely obscured, similar to what you would…

As many as 3,136 individual IP addresses have been identified associated with possible targets of the Contagious Interview campaign, which claims to include 20 potential victim organizations across the artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development sectors in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America. This new discovery comes from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which tracks a cluster of North Korean threat activity under the name PurpleBravo. The campaign, first documented in late 2023, is also known as CL-STA-0240, DeceptiveDevelopment, DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima, Gwisin Gang, Tenacious Pungsan, UNC5342, Void Dokkaebi, and WaterPlum. The…

A huge reservoir of “secret” freshwater off the East Coast could supply a city the size of New York City for 800 years and may have formed during the last Ice Age, when the region was covered in glaciers, researchers say.Preliminary analysis suggests that the reservoir, which lies beneath the ocean floor and appears to extend from the coast of New Jersey as far north as Maine, was locked in place under frigid conditions about 20,000 years ago and was formed during the last ice age, in part due to thick ice sheets.Last summer, researchers set out on an expedition…