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Kevin Scott says today’s AI tools are already powerful enough to most startup surprise founders. But extracting their value ...

A legal case involving Meta revealed the company's secret experiments with training data. Meta used "ablation" to identify how specific data improved its Llama AI models. Some researchers say this ...

Practical fusion power that can provide cheap, clean energy could be a step closer thanks to artificial intelligence. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a deep ...

Researchers have developed new AI models that can vastly improve accuracy and discovery within protein science. Potentially, the models will assist the medical sciences in overcoming present ...

The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency's headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images) The Department ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks. When you ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...