Wagering on war and death is now a “thing,” thanks to prediction markets. So this explains how one trader pocketed more than $500,000 by placing bets on various scenarios related to the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend. On Polymarket, one trader with the username “Magamyman” netted more than $195,000 by betting…
Anthropic is bringing another paid feature to Claude’s free tier. The next time you chat with Claude, you’ll have the option to have it reference your previous conversation to inform its outputs. Anthropic first made its chatbot capable of remembering past interactions last August, before giving it the ability to compartmentalize memories in the fall….
Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University)/LIGO Space-time is being driven apart. Every second that passes, the universe expands faster and faster. What is propelling this dramatic acceleration is an enigma, though – one scientists have known about, and searched for, for decades. Still, we are no closer to…
It’s a number that Donald Trump’s business-focused mind would surely be proud of: Nearly $530 million was wagered on Polymarket trying to predict the timing of when the United States and Israel would strike Iran. And at least half a dozen gamblers struck it rich after they lucked out. Or did they? A number of…
OpenAI’s Sam Altman said the company will amend its deal with the Defense Department (or the Department of War) to explicitly prohibit the use of its AI system on mass surveillance against Americans. Altman has published an internal memo previously sent to employees on X, telling them that the company will tweak the agreement to…
If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an astonishing cinematic achievement: it starts with a bang, space-time erupting out of nothing, before unfurling majestically with the formation of stars and then…
A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs. The fossil, dubbed “Trey,” will be open for bidding from March 17 to 31 on Joopiter, an…
Australia’s government may take a strict stance on ensuring younger users cannot access AI chatbots. Reuters reports that Australian regulators may require app storefronts to block AI services that do not implement age verification for restricting mature content by March 9. “eSafety will use the full range of our powers where there is non-compliance,” a…
DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening over time. If these startling findings prove correct, then dark energy cannot be a cosmological constant – a fixed term in…
It seems as if we have entered into the era of AI warfare that the movies always warned us about. Some of this has, admittedly, been happening for years. Much of war is already conducted via drone. Militaries around the world now run high-fidelity simulations to plan potential attacks, and some soldiers even use virtual…
