Neurons fire up in two distinct areas of the brain ahead of a tough decision.Credit: Science Picture Co/Alamy Some of the most rewarding decisions we make in life come with risk: do you take that job with a higher salary if it means moving to a new city and starting your life afresh? It’s an
Mark Cuban says the greater threat to humanity isn’t an AI apocalypse, but how people might react to doomsday warnings. The tech billionaire wrote late Monday on X that he sees a “far greater risk from what humans do in response to what they see on social media, than what agent swarms will do.” Cuban
One in five reptile species and two in five amphibian species are threatened with extinction1,2, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In Central America, for instance, numbers of variable harlequin frogs (Atelopus varius) have fallen by more than 80% since the 1980s. In the Seychelles, the population of giant bronze geckos
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue said that Jacob Coxon, the former
Elon Musk‘s ex Ashley St. Clair spoke about her decision to reject a $40 million non-disclosure agreement after the influencer gave birth last year to Musk’s 13th child. By turning down the alleged payday, St. Clair was able to sit for an interview in “Musk,” a new documentary from Alex Gibney that seeks to make
Home security doesn’t have to begin with a complicated fleet of cameras or multidevice security kit (although I’ve found some very good ones). When I looked into the data around the effects of security cams, I was pleasantly surprised to find only a single home security camera or a device such as a video doorbell
