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Introducing Manus: The General AI Agent – YouTube Watch On Chinese scientists have unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) “agent” that makes its own decisions without requiring specific instructions from a human operator. The AI agent, Manus, was developed by Chinese
By Samantha Morris In 1500, Lucrezia Borgia found herself once again a pawn in the ruthless game of power and politics. With two failed marriages behind her—one ending in murder—she was at the centre of a marriage negotiation that would
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers
Dark energy may have switched directions sometime in the distant past — and this violent transition may explain why cosmological observations aren’t adding up, researchers propose in a new paper. The modern picture of the evolution of the universe is
Finding someone whose politics you don’t like and using some flimsy excuse to put him in handcuffs is the kind of thing dictators do. In the United States, we pride ourselves on front-loading our political tests: Once you are a
Melting Antarctic ice is slowing Earth’s strongest ocean current, according to a new study. The influx of cold meltwater could slow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by up to 20% by 2050, researchers reported March 3 in the journal Environmental Research
A “blood moon” was visible from Earth last night, marking the first total lunar eclipse since 2022. A total lunar eclipse occurs when a full moon passes directly through Earth‘s shadow, casting our planet’s natural satellite in a reddish, blood-like
Since 2018, Doug Ford has been the unlikely premier of the province of Ontario, a close equivalent to the governor of a U.S. state, if more governors looked like longshoremen and gave out their personal-cellphone number to anyone who asked
Representative Richard Hudson has a bold prediction for how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s purge of the federal government will play out for his party in next year’s elections. “I think voters are going to reward us,” the North Carolina
