This Maryland lab’s quantum computer could cure cancer — and steal passwords

Gov. Wes Moore (D), who calls quantum computing a “lighthouse industry” for Maryland, has secured more than $1 billion in ...

What is Moltbook, the social networking site for AI bots – and should we be scared?

Moltbook is an AI-only social network built by OpenClaw agents, with 1.5M registered bots drawing praise and cybersecurity ...
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Blockchain Intelligence Firm TRM Labs Raises $70 Million at $1 Billion Valuation

TRM Labs raised $70 million in a Series C funding round to expand its AI capabilities aimed at disrupting criminal networks.

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

Gestala is the latest company to emerge from China’s burgeoning brain-computer interface industry. It plans to access the brain with noninvasive ultrasound technology.
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From the Lab to the Landscape: KACH’s Project MARS enters new phase with FAA approval

Official websites use .mil A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States ...

Reply and the University of Milan Launch Experimental Research on Biological Computing Based on Cortical Labs’ CL1 Platform

Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] today announced the start of a collaboration with the Department of Pathophysiology and ...

Former Cohere exec Sara Hooker has raised $50 million for her AI startup Adaption Labs—a bet on smaller, smarter models

Hooker says she wants to "eliminate prompt engineering" with AI models that intuitively adapt to varying tasks ...

Students hack their way into the future of brain-computer interfaces

At a hackathon over the weekend, students worked with real brain data to create new tools for brain-machine systems. The post ...

A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising

Some experts are awed and others derisive over AI bots’ conversations on the new site Moltbook.

Meet Matt Schlicht, the man behind AI’s latest Pandora’s box—a social network where AI agents talk to one another

Petar Radanliev, an expert in AI and cybersecurity at the University of Oxford, told the BBC that it’s “misleading” to think ...

A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form

One oddity is in how human hierarchies form. In other animals, fighting translates physical strength into dominance. In humans, however, people often happily defer to leaders, even seeking them out.