These new models are specially trained to recognize when an LLM is potentially going off the rails. If they don’t like how an interaction is going, they have the power to stop it. Of course, every ...

Laid-off lawyers, history P h D s, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to ...

A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had ...