Niall Firth

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion.

We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it?

A look behind the controls of a new way to create video-game characters that engage with players in unique, ever-changing ways.

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive.

A study from AI lab Anthropic shows how simple natural-language instructions can steer large language models to produce less toxic content.

Growing meat in a lab is still way too expensive. But mixing it with plants could help finally get it onto our plates.

Restaurant-goers in Singapore will soon get the chance to eat chicken nuggets grown in bioreactors.

The algorithm that determines the credit limit for users of Apple’s new credit card, which launched in the US in August, is facing an investigation because it appears to give men higher limits than women. The news: On November 7, web entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson posted a now-viral tweet saying that the Apple Card had…

Russia’s “sovereign internet” law came into effect today, effectively giving the government far more control over what happens online. The news: The law, which was signed by President Putin in May, gives Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, the power to block access to content that the government sees as a security threat. (We wrote about what…

An attack by 10 drones caused fires at a major oil processing facility and a nearby oil field in Saudi Arabia. Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility. Direct hit: The drone attack on Saturday targeted Abqaiq, the world’s biggest oil processing facility, and the Khuaru oil field, which produces around one million barrels of crude oil…