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While the AI race is focused on scale, the next breakthrough advantage isn't in bigger models—it's in smaller, smarter ones.

Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficient.

Alex Taylor believed he'd made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that the company had murdered ...

AI companion platforms often collect extensive personal data, including users’ emotional expressions and behaviours,” Lalit ...

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