Anthropic Revises Claude’s ‘Constitution’ to Suggest Chatbot Awareness
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 […]
Lab mice that ‘touch grass’ have less anxiety – highlighting a big problem in rodent research
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 […]
Apps to boycott American products surge to the top of Denmark’s App Store
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. […]
Ironic alert: hallucinatory quote found in paper from prestigious AI conference NeurIPS
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 […]
2,400-year-old temple of Hercules and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Roman walls
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 […]
Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600 million in new funding
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, […]
Coyote makes emergency landing on Alcatraz Island after unprecedentedly dangerous swim
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 […]
Stunning time-lapse video shot using ‘artificial solar eclipses’ shows three massive eruptions of the sun
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 […]
North Korea’s ‘PurpleBravo’ campaign targets 3,136 IP addresses with fake job interviews
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 […]
A giant freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast is 20,000 years old and could be large enough to supply New York City for 800 years.
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 […]