Years ago, when I was still at the Chronicle news desk, I got a phone call from Mike Hanson, who at the time was Alex Jones’ main “producer,” sidekick, and chief personal promoter. I’m not sure of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the emerging capacity of AI to ...

David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a ...

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race ...

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"These bridges allow orangutans to move, to mix, to maintain healthy populations," said conservationist Erwin Alamsyah Siregar A Sumatran orangutan was filmed using a human-made canopy bridge to cross ...

A newly characterized bat coronavirus can latch onto a human cell receptor found in the lung, giving scientists an important new clue about how some animal viruses may cross into people. Study: ...

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An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world's first "biological data centers" — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons. Cortical Labs, ...