'We're the best servants anyone could dream of!': AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we're already bowing to it - Book - A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we're incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us off, this is how it would likely play out.

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Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic's most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?

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History of computers: A brief timeline

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Is the metaverse finally dead and buried? What's really going on with the embattled idea of living in virtual worlds.

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AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality. -- Akhil Bhardwaj

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Analysis - Can AI really simulate human thinking? Research casts doubt on an influential study, suggesting an advanced model was just really good at memorizing patterns. By - Owen Hughes - Published - 22 May 26

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China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2 -- Alan Bradley

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How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they've found the answer. -- Roland Moore-Colyer

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China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test - it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually -- Alan Bradley

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World's first 'native' color lidar will let robots and self-driving cars map the world in full color 3D -- Fiona Jackson

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Google AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations without compromising performance -- Fiona Jackson

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'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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How everything you do is being monitored in an AI-fuelled 'surveillance capitalism system' that's ramping up aggressively -- Anne Toomey McKenna

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Could there ever be a worldwide internet outage? -- Abby Wilson -- Published

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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through - Oct. 29, 1969 -- Tia Ghose -- Published

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Science history - Science history: First two-way phone call across outdoor lines made by Alexander Graham Bell - Oct. 9, 1876 - By - Tia Ghose - Published - 9 October 25

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Scientists invent 'Pulse-Fi' prototype - a Wi-Fi heart rate monitor that's cheaper to set up than the best wearable devices -- Sophie Berdugo -- Published

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Scientists develop 'full-spectrum' 6G chip that could transfer data at 100 gigabits per second - 10,000 times faster than 5G -- Rich McEachran -- Published

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Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system - it's as effective as seismometers, tests show -- Ben Turner -- Published

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Japan sets new internet speed record - it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds -- Perri Thaler -- Published

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Your data is being compromised much quicker than ever before, but you don't have to sit still and take it -- Mike Chapple -- Published

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New 'super laser' amplifier could make the internet 10 times faster -- Peter Ray Allison -- Last updated

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Live 'quantum network' being tested in New York - overcoming key hurdles could bring us closer to an 'unhackable' internet -- Alan Bradley

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Breakthrough in experimental light-powered quantum computers could mean scaling them up is now far more viable -- Tristan Greene

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New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time -- Carly Page

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Scientists create new type of encryption that protects video files against quantum computing attacks -- Carly Page

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IBM quantum processor achieves highest fidelity calculations for the longest period of time on record -- Tristan Greene

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Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits - not the millions we assumed - to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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Computing quiz: Can you match these 'ancient' devices to their pictures? -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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The first flying taxis could start operating in 2026 - will this new form of transport actually take off? -- Edd Gent

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Meet Sky Dragon, the giant 10-person 'flying taxi' that just passed its first flight test in China -- Alan Bradley

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China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time - it can drive 248 miles on a single charge -- Rory Bathgate

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Sodium-ion batteries are getting ready for prime time. How can they improve EVs? -- Rory Bathgate

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Chinese EV maker claims it's engineered the world's first semi-solid-state EV battery with huge 620-mile range -- Alan Bradley

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New EV motor invention could cut 1,000 pounds from future vehicles, making them much lighter while boosting their range -- Alan Bradley

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Scientists create new solid-state sodium-ion battery - they say it'll make EVs cheaper and safer -- Rory Bathgate

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Watch four flying cars go toe-to-toe in new 'Formula One of the skies' -- Damien Pine

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New water battery could last until the 24th century - and it can be safely discarded in the environment -- Rory Bathgate

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Quantum battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second with a laser - larger prototypes could last for years after charging for just a minute -- Rory Bathgate

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We went to Finland to hear about the new 'sand battery' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid -- Sophie Berdugo

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China launches world first 'megawatt-class wind power airship' -- Rory Bathgate

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Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries, scientists say, after fast-charging breakthrough in sodium-ion alternative -- Rory Bathgate

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Japan trials 100-kilowatt laser weapon - it can cut through metal and drones mid-flight -- Fiona Jackson

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MIT invention uses ultrasound to shake drinking water out of the air, even in dry regions -- Owen Hughes

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NASA's ultraquiet supersonic 'flying swordfish' makes history with first test flight -- Damien Pine

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Humanoid robots have outpaced human runners in the half-marathon, beating the world record ‪-‬ here are the secrets to this astonishing feat -- Alan Bradley

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Advanced AI-powered table-tennis-playing robot can match up to the professionals - watch it in action -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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This humanoid robot does all your housework for you ‪-‬ and its makers say it's ready for your home -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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AI compressed billions of years of evolution into seconds to create 'Lego-like robots' that can recover even when they lose limbs -- Alan Bradley

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Humanoid robots show off creepily impressive kung-fu moves during Lunar New Year festival in China -- Keumars Afifi-Sabet

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Watch awkward Chinese humanoid robot lay it all down on the dance floor -- Alan Bradley

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Drones could achieve 'infinite flight' after engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges them from the ground -- Alan Bradley

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Creepy humanoid robot face learned to move its lips more accurately by staring at itself in the mirror, then watching YouTube -- Fiona Jackson

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AI chatbots are turbocharging violence against women and girls: We urgently need to regulate them -- Yvonne McDermott Rees

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AI self-replication hacks 'no longer purely theoretical,' study finds -‬ ‪but experts say it's too soon to panic -- Carly Page

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New 'trick' fixes major flaw with lasers in neutral-atom quantum computers - inching us closer to more powerful systems -- Alan Bradley

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'Feuding tech bros' go head to head in legal showdown. But what does it mean for the future of AI? -- Rob Nicholls

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