Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei admits uncertainty about AI consciousness as Claude Opus 4.6 assigns itself a 15–20% probability of being sentient, occasionally expressing discomfort with 'being a product,' prompting the company to take precautionary steps including allowing models to refuse disturbing tasks while investing in interpretability research.
MIT and Microsoft researchers are using AI to design nanoparticle sensors that detect early-stage cancer through a simple urine test, with scientists now working to develop an at-home diagnostic kit capable of identifying up to 30 types of cancer.
Humanoid robots marketed as autonomous are secretly being operated or trained by hidden human workers, sparking urgent ethical alarms over deceptive AI hype, exploitative labor practices, privacy violations, and dangerous public misconceptions that could mirror Tesla Autopilot's deadly consequences.
Industry 5.0 promises a human-centered manufacturing revolution blending AI, robotics, and sustainability, but a survey of 250 global leaders reveals most companies remain trapped in cost-cutting mode, failing to invest in the higher-value, human-centric use cases needed to unlock its full potential.
MIT Technology Review spotlights AI, crime, and energy storage breakthroughs as the Pentagon pressures Anthropic to grant full military access to its Claude AI model, threatening to cut ties if refused, while sodium-ion batteries emerge as a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion technology.
A new subscriber-only eBook declares 2025 a 'Year of Reckoning' for AI, exposing how top industry leaders are failing to deliver on major promises while challenging widespread optimism about large language models and raising serious questions about whether AI has become a bubble.
CoPaw launches as a free, open-source AI assistant that runs locally without an API key, supporting major chat platforms like Discord, DingTalk, and iMessage, with easy one-line installation and a roadmap packed with multimodal and multi-agent capabilities.
Anthropic's Claude.ai and Claude Code are down for thousands of users Monday morning due to login issues, as a fix is underway — the outage striking at a particularly turbulent moment with Claude topping App Store charts above ChatGPT amid Pentagon contract controversy and Trump ordering federal agencies to halt …
Alibaba's newly released Qwen3.5 Small Model Series stuns the AI world as its compact 9B flagship model outperforms OpenAI's massive 120B system on key benchmarks, running on a standard laptop while offering free commercial use under Apache 2.0.
Anthropic faces an existential crisis as a collapsed Pentagon deal over autonomous weapons disputes triggers a federal ban on its technology, puts $60 billion in venture capital at risk, and sees rival OpenAI swoop in to sign the rejected agreement.