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The dream of recursive self-improvement in AI—where a system doesn’t just get better at a task, but gets better at learning—has long been the ‘holy grail’ of the field. While theoretical models like ...

Social media addiction (SMA) negatively affects individuals’ physical wellbeing and mental health. The attentional bias (AB) toward stimuli associated with social media may significantly contribute to ...

Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few ...

AI agents speed up tasks while allowing people to focus on other complicated tasks. Perplexity, for instance, has caught up in this game by unveiling its newest AI agent named "Computer." The ...

Google on Wednesday announced a series of updates to its Gemini AI-powered features on the Android operating system, the most notable being a new way to use the AI to handle multi-step tasks like ...

Every day, millions of people input prompts (whether questions or instructions) into AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DALL-E, or Meta AI. Recently, media coverage highlighted what seemed ...

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has warned Aba residents against shunning voters’ registration, stating that such a mistake could return the state to Egypt. Naija News reports that Otti, while ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted a key difference between tasks and your job's broader purpose. AI automates tasks but preserves the purpose of many jobs in key industries, he said. AI was meant to wipe ...

Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview. It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks. However, it comes with security risks. Anthropic is testing a new feature ...