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How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics are not a practical guide Entertainment Pictures/Alamy Super-intelligent artificial intelligence rising up and wiping out humanity has been a common trope in science fiction for decades. Now, we live in a world where real…

Watch The Weather Channel like its 1999 with the official RetroCast

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The people have spoken. The Weather Channel has officially announced a new look rolling out across both its website and on its app—one with…

This 5-day diet helped Crohn’s patients feel better fast

“What should I eat?” is one of the most common questions people with inflammatory bowel disease ask their doctors. It is also one of the hardest to answer. Inflammatory bowel disease, which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, has not…

AI animation studio Toonstar will turn books into digital shows for HarperCollins

HarperCollins is tapping into AI to bring some of its book franchises to life. Specifically, the publisher is teaming up with Toonstar, an AI animation studio, to turn them into digital shows. The first project will be an adaptation of…

Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude…

Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party

Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands. As president of…

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are…

We may have seen a ‘dirty fireball’ star explosion for the first time

Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impression Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for the first time,…

Ancient humans didn’t need braces. So why do we?

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Today braces are something of a rite of passage. But for hundreds of thousands of years, our ancient ancestors didn’t need them. So what…

This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders

After a long day of teaching, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril turned to a familiar task: preparing a Cambrian arthropod fossil for study. At first glance, the specimen looked typical for its age. But as he carefully removed surrounding material, something unusual appeared….