6 Nigerians being extradited to U.S. for swindling women out of $6 million in romance scams
JOHANNESBURG — Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through...
A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids
KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty ImagesGeoffrey Hinton says a 10% chance AI causes human extinction is not an 'unreasonable' belief.Ramana Kumar...
The Holdout Juror in the Clancy Case Is a Rorschach Test for America
Last Friday, as the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial filed into a Massachusetts courtroom one last time, rapt...
Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’
On a recent Saturday at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Olivia Suskowicz, a sophomore, got ready for a party....
C.I.A. Releases Intelligence Sent to White House Before Sept. 11
Tucked at the end of a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a...
New boycott of West Bank Jews is based on lies
Britain announced this week that it will ban imports from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and sanction companies that...
Lose Yourself in Yayoi Kusama’s Last Show
Just over two weeks before a landmark retrospective of Yayoi Kusama’s vast and varied oeuvre was scheduled to open at...
How Real Is the Threat of AI Starting the Next Pandemic?
Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught an AI model to help produce...
How a Theft From a 9/11 Memorial Turned Into a ‘Blessing in Disguise’
In November 2024, a young man entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Midtown Manhattan and strode toward...
Students are using AI in school and test scores are down, but the OECD finds that those who use it once or twice a week perform similarly to nonusers
It may not be all doom and gloom for AI in the classroom—there actually may be a Goldilocks effect. The...
