This week’s science roundup covers 2025’s near-record heat, a new mpox strain and fresh clues about why hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago. Journalist Karen Hao unpacks the rise of AI “empires,” their ...

Republican lawmakers decry Intel's testing of Chinese-linked tools after Reuters report Republican lawmakers accused Intel this week of threatening U.S. national security after Reuters revealed the ...

This study examines how multimodal large language models evaluate hate speech. Larger models can make context-sensitive decisions aligned with human judgement. However, pervasive demographic and ...