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Digital sovereignty took centre stage at a major artificial intelligence conference, with AI leaders discussing avoiding dependence on less reliable states.

The RCMP says they are aware of reports regarding an FBI investigation into the alleged exposure of tens of millions of drivers’ licences belonging to people in Canada and the U.S. being sold on the dark web.

The Canadian computer scientist considered one of the founders of AI, Yoshua Bengio, told AFP that humanity is “losing control” of the technology and that the world needs guardrails similar to nuclear arms controls.

Researchers once thought that dinosaurs were sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Later findings challenged that, suggesting that older dinosaurs were warm-blooded and could control their body temperature.

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact two years ago that initially went undetected.

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity.

The rise of artificial intelligence could exacerbate gender disparities in the labour market, the World Economic Forum and LinkedIn warned.

Danny Boyle says he tried to be responsible with the small amount of artificial intelligence used in the making of his new film 'Ink.'

The European Union’s top official proposed on Wednesday banning children under 13 across the 27-nation bloc from using social media sites and imposing limits for older teens on accessing the platforms.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk and other prominent industry leaders have said in recent days that AI’s development needs to slow down. The consensus came after an Anthropic researcher resigned with a dire warning about the threats the technology poses to humanity.

The boom in artificial intelligence has put Ontario municipalities on the front lines of a major debate over how to regulate a new wave of large, energy-hungry data centres.

Researchers have discovered a new prehistoric animal species from Tanzania dating back to nearly 240 million years, during the Triassic period.

Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and others did not.

African wild dogs can travel more than 4,000 km across the continent to find mates, according to new research that suggests the endangered species' surviving populations are more interconnected than previously thought.

Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities.