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Imagine you work a weird job where you fire guns at targets all day. At one point you were told your value to the company would be tied to how many bullets you fired, so you pulled the trigger like crazy. What if, when that caused a bullet supply issue, you eventually received a memo saying you were no longer expected to fire as many bullets as possible. But what if, around that same time, you were given the minigun from Terminator 2: Judgement Day? Accord

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI will roll out a new ChatGPT feature in December 2025, allowing verified adults to generate erotic text and engage in romantic or sexual conversations. Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like Replika and Grok already do this, but OpenAI's entry marks a turning point. The company frames this as "treating adults like adults." But it's a commercial strategy to keep users talking and paying. OpenAI burned through mo

Credit: Michelangelo Buonarroti from Pexels The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam, the United States, China, and the European Union are each charting their own course toward this "new internet," revealing starkly different political and economic visions of our digital future. The study is published i

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain General Motors announced plans Wednesday to incorporate Google's Gemini artificial intelligence platform into vehicles and to launch a vehicle capable of "eyes-off" driving in 2028. At an event dubbed "GM Forward," the giant US automaker said Gemini would enable drivers to "talk to your car as naturally as you would to a fellow passenger," while the Cadillac Escalade would be capable of "eyes-off driving" in three years.

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels India has proposed sweeping new regulations to govern artificial intelligence, aiming to curb a surge in misinformation and deepfake videos in the world's most populous nation. The Ministry of Information Technology announced the proposed amendments, citing "the growing misuse of technologies used for the creation or generation of synthetic media." "Recent incidents of deepfake audio, videos and synthetic media going vira

ChatGPT was touted as 'the heart' of OpenAI's new Atlas browser, as tech firms seek to challenge Google Chrome's supremacy. Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google's empire. Chatbots that started out as AI-powered assistants have gradually merged with web browsers and can independently scour the internet for detailed a

A Tesla car charges at a home in San Francisco, Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact. Worries about how AI will affect the environment surpass concerns about other industries that worsen climate change, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs

UC Assistant Professor Sameh Eisa and his students developed a moth-like drone that navigates without AI using an extremum-seeking feedback system. Researchers say this system is extremely efficient and can be scaled down to tiny proportions. Credit: Michael Miller Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing a drone with flapping wings that can locate and hover around a moving light like a moth to a flame. UC College of Engineering and Appli

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling by designing the algorithms and rules that govern the learning process. However, as AI technology advances, machines are increasingly doing things themselves. An example is a new AI system developed by researchers that invented its own way to learn, resulting in an algorithm that outperformed human-

Although AI-generated voices are often mistaken for human ones, they are generally perceived as less attractive. Credit: MPIEA / L. Bittner With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic voices have become increasingly prevalent in our everyday soundscape, raising the question: Can AI voices still be distinguished from human voices, and how attractive do they sound? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA)

Overview of the virtualizing scheme of physical sensors in nuclear power plants. Credit: Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1111/mice.70051 Electrical equipment housed within auxiliary buildings of nuclear power plants—such as control panels, transformers, and emergency generators—are particularly vulnerable to vibrations. Notably, during the 2016 Gyeongju earthquake, while concrete structures remained intact, power facilit

Hurricane Beryl hovers over the Caribbean Sea on 2 July 2024. The WSINDy (Weak form Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics) algorithm could help improve forecasts of such phenomena and provide new insights into the underlying physics of weather. Credit: ABI imagery from NOAA GOES-16 Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical equations can approximate the underlying phys

An illustrator's depiction of data gathered from sensors being analyzed by artificially intelligent software. Credit: Bumper DeJesus / Princeton University Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide the audio automatically based on the pictures, reading lips and noting each time

Prescribed heating derived from February 1998 CMAP monthly mean precipitation. (a) Upper atmosphere (𝜎 = ~0.3) anomalous latent heating determined from precipitation anomalies. (b) Vertical profile of latent heat release at the Equator from precipitation anomalies. Credit: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2025). DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-24-0196.1 A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framewo

Overview of the Bayesian optimization workflow designed for improving the accuracy of the MEDSLIK-II oil spill model simulations. The workflow iteratively refines the simulation configuration parameters by evaluating the objective function and optimizing the acquisition function until a convergence criterion is met. Here, we denote the iteration number with the superscript (i), for the sake of clarity. Credit: Ecological Informatics (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since 2022, American companies, consumers, and even the United Nations have used large language models—artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT that are trained to create text that reads like human-generated writing. In a study published in the journal Patterns, researchers reveal that AI is used in an average of 17% of analyzed corporate and governmental written content, from job posts to press releases, and t

Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Michigan researchers have developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an eye—or at least overnight. Understanding the behavior of single molecules is important: it can lead to knowledge of different cellular processes or track how diseases begin and progress. To track the behavior of single molecules, rese

Credit: University of Adelaide From using moon rovers that encourage predators to hunt and forage in packs, to applying state-of-the-art algorithms to try and understand the facial expressions of Sumatran orangutans, artificial intelligence and robotics are giving zookeepers and researchers new insights into animal welfare. Developed by University of Adelaide researchers, with support from Zoos South Australia's research team, these hi-tech approaches are