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AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor

Authors sue OpenAI for using their works without proper licensing

Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion

A pancake-shaped creature shows the origin of thought

NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Oldest known wooden structure unearthed, almost half a million years old

A Soviet mathematician quietly solved the mystery of planet formation

The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns

Bun hype. How we learned nothing from Yarn

Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants

Quantum miscellany

Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It

High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer

Babies Unravel the Origin of Conscious Awareness and Purpose

Researchers gave 200 people $10k each to study generosity

VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement

What Kant can teach us about work: on the problem with jobs | Aeon Essays

Study finds heat pumps more efficient than gas or oil

OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific

A new tech rebellion is taking shape. Here’s what the Luddites can teach us

Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought

Scientists Have Spent 40 Years Trying to Understand Salt