The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be listening to artificial intelligence (AI) firms' warnings to the world about the dangers of the technology they are developing.

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Several experts on a United Nations artificial intelligence committee warned Monday against the apocalyptic rhetoric used by some professionals in the sector regarding AI risks.

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OpenAI on Monday called for the United States to lead a global effort to establish standards for developing artificial intelligence as CEO Sam Altman prepares to brief the United Nations this week.

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Chinese street dancer Wu Yufei has spent most of his 13-year career performing solo, but this year, he found some new partners—a crew of robots with sleek moves.

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China's Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was China's most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition...

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Bill Gates told his foundation's Goalkeepers gathering that "increased generosity" and "the smart use of AI" together could accelerate the fight against inequality, urging the world's richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence toward what he...

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A battery material can meet key performance measures in a small laboratory cell yet fall short when researchers build it into a complete battery cell. At the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), researchers in the...

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Five heavily used bikes could take the emissions from one fossil fuel-powered car off Vancouver's roads, according to Simon Fraser University researchers, who say expanding bike-share networks can play a big role in curbing emissions.

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Roboticists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the University of Michigan have shown that elastic rods can be bent and twisted to repeatedly snap between shapes, releasing built-up energy that enables small robots to hop, flip and...

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The model for managing artificial intelligence (AI) risks "is unraveling," United Nations experts warned in a report published Monday on an incident at OpenAI in July.

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A new AI technology has been developed that retains and reuses knowledge, much like writing down a solution in a notebook and applying it to similar problems rather than asking an expert for help each time.

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Data centers in Europe will be rated on energy and water consumption under an EU proposal put forward Monday to pre-empt possible public discontent as the bloc pushes to boost its computing capacity.

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A research team led by Dr. Taehoon Kim of the Composites & Convergence Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), collaborated with research teams led by Dr. Seon Joon Kim and Dr. Jaewoo Kim of...

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Global renewable power capacity grew by record levels last year, a report showed Monday, hailed by the U.N. climate chief as a sign that the "brute power of market forces" is making the transition to clean energy irreversible.

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The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used an evolutionary algorithm to identify optimal shapes for ultra-thin, bio-inspired corrugated airfoils, the two-dimensional cut-throughs of wings. Lightweight membrane-like wings are a strong contender for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in...

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Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday.

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