A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

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Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in future elections

Texas-based firm Ocean Infinity will send swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles into the southern Indian Ocean in a high-risk attempt to locate this missing jet

For over 150 years, scientists have known that fires can be extinguished with sound waves, but they still don’t know how