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For years, artificial intelligence has promised to accelerate scientific discovery. But most AI tools still sit awkwardly on the sidelines, helping with narrow tasks like summarising papers or ...

What happens when hundreds of autonomous AI agents are tasked with building a fully functional web browser from scratch? Basic Dev walks through how the Cursor team attempted this ambitious experiment ...

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Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers found that up to nine in ten cases could be linked to the APOE gene — even ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a "black box," with its logic obscured from human understanding—but how much does the average user actually care to know how AI works? It depends on the ...