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Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering Anil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligence is to underestimate ourselves (Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study…

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist A few months before he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a…

Anthropic’s decision to restrict access to its powerful new model increases fears about the advanced technology Anthropic has ruled out releasing its latest AI model, Mythos, to the public because of the threat it poses to global cybersecurity.

AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen The Guardian

ChatGPT Health is rolling out to users in the US who are 18 years or older.

Because the alternative is much too dangerous The post We Should Train AI to Betray Its Users appeared first on Towards Data Science.

China has all but caught up. The US is not going to “win” the AI war. Here’s what we should do instead. Marcus on AI | Substack

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness Ars Technica

“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”

They suck up energy and water, and blast out heat. Just who is better off from all this investment – aside from tech bros? The two great existential threats of our time – the climate crisis and AI – come hurtling together in the explosion of datacentres across Australia and around the world.

Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.

Margaret Atwood onstage at Detroit Opera House on January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal.

AI tools promised to free marketers. Instead, they've created more work. Here's one startup's attempt to fix that.

A true cost model doesn’t just show where money is being spent -- it reveals which work is driving impact.