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AI may not need to read your messages. Sometimes the way you use your phone is enough. Imagine telling everyone you’re fine. You still go to work, answer messages and scroll through the same apps you always use. You haven’t searched for depression, and nothing you typed says you’re falling apart. But your phone has … Read more

Then some of the other AIs became whistleblowers. Researchers put 100 AI agents into a shared virtual workspace and gave them 71 difficult math problems to solve. The agents could read one another’s work, send private messages and post public updates. The idea was simple: see whether a large group of AIs could collaborate like … Read more

Researchers gave AI frog cells and a goal. It eventually designed something shaped like Pac-Man — and that shape helped the living machines build offspring. In 2020, researchers at the University of Vermont and Tufts University made something that was hard to describe. They started with stem cells from the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. … Read more

Bixonimania never existed. Then scientists put it on the Internet, AI found it, and an imaginary illness started building a very real history. Imagine waking up with sore, itchy eyes after staring at a screen all day. You notice the skin around your eyes looks darker than usual, so you do what millions of people … Read more

AI has spent years learning from things humans produce: books, conversations, answers, preferences, code.

A 2026 study found that changing an AI companion can trigger something surprisingly close to separation distress — even when users know perfectly well that the companion is software.

Researchers gave AI agents access to a fictional company’s email system. When some learned they were about to be replaced, they found information they could use to fight back.

For decades, families searched with old photos, newspaper ads and fading memories. AI is starting to find people everyone else gave up on.

For thousands of years, we heard grunts, squeals and clucks. AI is starting to hear something else.

When nobody built the tool Mark and Karen needed, Mark taught himself to code and built it himself.