Denisovans were first identified not from a skull or skeleton, but from DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in Siberia. Since then, researchers have confirmed that this extinct ...

The Turing Award winner launched nonprofit LawZero with $30M to build safe-by-design AI. He says the industry's race toward agentic systems is turning theoretical risks into practical ones.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Cloning celebrity dogs and resurrecting dire wolves may seem like just the latest in weird tech bro obsessions. But what’s in ...

Deutsche Bank's head of macro and thematic research, Jim Reid, has flagged a third scenario the Dallas Fed didn't chart: AI ...

From automated cyberattacks to fears of losing control, new warnings about AI are sounding more alarming than ever.

Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

Nick Bostrom is famed for developing simulation theory. Now he's turning his attention to AI -- and risk to humankind.

Stone tools reexamined from Tunel Wielki Cave in southern Poland are now believed to date between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, far older than first thought. The tools were found alongside animal ...

If Destruction Be Our Lot #1 hits stores this week with a tale of lonely robots searching for purpose in a world free of ...