Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

Online casinos have proved to be a much stronger source of tax revenue than sports betting apps. They may be coming to a state near you. By Ben Blatt Most casinos in Las Vegas take sports bets, but ...

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of physicists has proven that the universe cannot be reduced to a simulation. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Physicist ...

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A simulated Federal Reserve meeting that used artificial intelligence agents modeled on real-life policymakers showed political pressure polarised members of the board in ...

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Abstract: In order to enhance the performance of existing propellers, a study has been carried out on the adjoint-based optimization of propellers based on reverse engineering. This method facilitates ...

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...