Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and ...

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Kyle Brumfield is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and in the ...

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Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...