When you ask ChatGPT and other AIs to recommend a product or service, odds are the top answers were put there by humans. This doesn’t mean artificial intelligence is lying to you. That first answer is ...

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scientists have found that memories are not static records but dynamic processes that change the brain’s wiring ...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Monday that a months-long federal investigation uncovered widespread misclassification of crime reports by the Metropolitan Police ...

Members of a U.S. House committee criticized Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith's leadership and accused her of directing commanders to manipulate crime data. In an interim report, the ...

When my late lab partner Xu Liu and I first illuminated the brain cells that stored a particular memory, it felt like watching a thought flicker back to life. We stimulated a constellation of neurons ...

Have you ever said no to your dog, only to cave moments later to those irresistible puppy-dog eyes? Or maybe you’ve tried to cut a walk short—yet your dog refuses to budge, digging their heels in ...

Microsoft studied interactions between AI customers and vendors. Most agents failed to resist manipulation and make wise choices. The results underscore the dangers of an AI agent-run economy. As ...

After several election cycles where polls were off base and media coverage was biased, prediction markets promised to be technology’s answer to flawed polling, offering real-time data and financial ...

Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...

Work can be stressful enough. When you throw in a colleague or boss who is a master manipulator, it can get even messier. I don’t know about you, but when I worked in the corporate setting, I noticed ...