The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the ...

Alan Branhagen, executive director of the Natural Land Institute, has received the Grow Native! 2025 Native Plant Pioneer Award. The award, administered by the Missouri Prairie Foundation, recognizes ...

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A hot potato: One of the biggest fears over the rapid development of AI and the race toward AGI is that the technology could turn on humans, potentially wiping us out. Geoffrey Hinton and Meta's Yann ...

Meta's Yann LeCun has some ideas for some fundamental AI guardrails. LeCun said "submission to humans" should be one, while another is "empathy." Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, said we should ...

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO ...

Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician and codebreaker who helped crack the German Enigma cipher in World War II, played a pivotal role in shortening the war and saving countless lives. Despite his ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Cornell’s junior kicker Alan Zhao was named to the 2025 Fred Mitchell Award Watch List. That honor goes to the top place kicker in FCS, Division I, Division II, NAIA and NJCAA ...

Holding numerous awards and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Alan Jackson has left his mark on the genre over the last three decades. Although he released numerous hit songs, most remember ...

Meta's Yann LeCun disagrees with Elon Musk about the role of researchers at AI companies. Musk earlier said xAI is ditching the "researcher" job title in favor of "engineers." LeCun said ignoring the ...