Tag: Research

Opinion: Weight-loss drugs are great, but real food still matters

Groundbreaking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have understandably generated a lot of excitement, bringing hope to the hundreds of millions of...

New Anthropic study shows AI really doesn’t want to be forced to change its views

AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows. They can pretend to have different views during training when in reality maintaining their...

‘Reasoning’ AI models have become a trend, for better or worse

Call it a reasoning renaissance. In the wake of the release of OpenAI’s o1, a so-called reasoning model, there’s been an explosion of...

Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview

Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over...

A test for AGI is closer to being solved — but it may be flawed

A well-known test for artificial general intelligence (AGI) is closer to being solved. But the tests’s creators say this points to flaws in...

Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024 says Ofcom

Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K., according...