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Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 18th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Claude appears to have a normally invisible set of internal representations that guide its reasoning and output, which the company argues echoes an influential idea known as global workspace theory.
The AI Lab That Could Compress 20 Years of Science Into Weeks
Posted in Science, Software on 1st Jun, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Materials sit beneath almost every meaningful technological advance, energy, computing, transportation, medicine. A lab that can discover them in weeks rather than decades isn't just faster. It's a different kind of tool entirely.
AI Just Proved an 80-Year-Old Mathematical Conjecture Wrong, and Mathematicians Are Stunned
Posted in Science, Software on 29th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific and beloved mathematicians of the twentieth century, famous for posing deceptively simple questions that resisted solution for decades.
AI's Hunger for Power Is Triggering a Political Backlash
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 28th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
The vast warehouses of servers that power everything from cloud storage to large language models, now consume 6% of all electricity generated in the United States. New figures suggest that milestone has been quietly crossed, and communities are starting to push back.
What Would It Actually Mean for AI to Be Generally Intelligent? DeepMind Has a Framework
Posted in Business, Science, Software on 7th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
If the DeepMind framework gains traction, it would give researchers, policymakers, and the public something more useful: a shared vocabulary, a set of specific tests, and a way to actually track whether the technology is getting closer to human-level general intelligence, rather than just asserting that it is.