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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

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Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

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