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AI pop-ups can help you stop doomscrolling on your phone

An AI program can learn from smartphone users' behaviours in order to send timely pop-up reminders about when to close attention-grabbing apps. The system effectively reduced how often people opened apps such as TikTok

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Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-based 'mirror test'

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Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated stereotypes

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This robot can respond to verbal commands and corrections on the fly.

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‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots household chores

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AI forecaster can predict the future better than humans

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Dogs really do understand that words stand for objects

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Why giving AI a robot body could make its ‘brain’ more human-like

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Ancient campsite may show how humans survived volcanic super-eruption

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Nvidia's Blackwell AI 'superchip' is the most powerful yet

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Watch an AI-powered robot dog crawl around an obstacle course

A four-legged robot can handle real-world obstacles that require scrambling up and down or leaping sizeable gaps. AI training lets it adapt to new terrain it hasn’t seen before

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Google AI learns to play open-world video games by watching them

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Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?

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AI chatbot models ‘think’ in English even when using other languages

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AI chatbots use racist stereotypes even after anti-racism training

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