Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

The developer in 2024 knows the feeling: an AI assistant suggests a clever-looking function, but wiring it into a real system still takes most of the afternoon. The tools autocomplete and explain, yet ...

But genetic analyses over the past two decades have revealed traces of several human ghost lineages in the ancestry of people today and in the ancient DNA recovered from fossils. These human ghost ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The official retirement means that from today forward, these legacy models simply won’t be selectable in the ChatGPT model menu for everyday users. Conversations you’ve had that relied on a ...

Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us ...

The cover of the new book "Whole-brain modeling. Cartography of the dynamics of mind" poses the central question of what ...

At the report launch yesterday (February 11), the attendees were surveyed on whether they thought AI in financial advice ...

Analyze the February 3rd Bloodletting, where the software sector lost $300 billion in one day. Know how AI agents and the end of per-seat pricing triggered the SaaSpocalypse.

University of Michigan researchers built a modular robot to isolate how limb proportions affect animal locomotion and energy use. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a modular, ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

These users argue the company’s newest model, GPT-5.2, isn’t on the same wavelength as GPT-4o, a model dating back to 2024, ...