From friendship networks and the internet to connections in the brain and trade relationships between countries, networks are everywhere. Physicists at Leiden study the fundamental principles underlying all these networks, leading to new insights into how they work.

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The world's largest AI companies are working to create a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure mounts to create a safer version of the technology.

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AI-generated texts are increasingly perceived as human, but people can still recognize human writing as such. However, this distinction becomes much more difficult once AI is explicitly instructed to come across as human. This is shown by research involving,...

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a new type of monitor that can check every minute or even every second for the buildup of nuclear material in the air ducts of nuclear...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly the large language models (LLMs) that underpin ChatGPT and similar platforms, are remarkably skilled at answering queries about a wide range of topics. However, the extent to which they can interpret social situations and...

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An international team of researchers, including professor David Oswald from our Department of Computer Science, has discovered a security vulnerability that could put sensitive data stored in cloud computing systems at risk.

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Imagine a small-business owner's loan application has just been rejected by an algorithm. Under international standards, she is entitled to know why.

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Scientists have used an X-ray detector on a sounding rocket, a type of research rocket that flies to the edge of space, then returns to Earth within minutes, to document metal dendrites—the branching structures that form as liquid metal...

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Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier". He expressed ongoing concerns over the "misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism" and fears that a swarm of AI agents could theoretically...

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Australia's pipeline of huge data center projects has raised questions about how much energy and water these giant server farms will use.

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Radar technology is one of the most powerful tools for better understanding the world around us. Researchers use radar to see beneath the surface of ice, forest canopies or soil in ways the human eye never could. As the...

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New research from Syracuse University argues that communities battling AI data centers should borrow directly from the playbook developed a decade ago to fight fracking. The findings, by Syracuse University Associate Teaching Professor and urban planning expert Austin Zwick,...

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The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps—and a cautious middle.

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The threat of catastrophic danger as artificial intelligence develops at high speed has sparked a global debate on how it should be regulated.

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Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice—often unaware of where their conversations and other personal information end up.

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Monitoring Earth from above is a messy, inconsistent business. Clouds can block a satellite's view, the angle of the sun can create huge shadows, and orbital paths might not take a system across the same general area for weeks....

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A passenger car contains far more materials than its weight alone would suggest. Beyond the steel and aluminum are small amounts of gold, palladium and molybdenum—elements that can become highly significant when resource scarcity is assessed. In his doctoral...

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Monitoring the lifespan of a lithium-ion battery without disassembling it may be possible. This prospect emerged from a study published in May in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in...

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