The people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming part

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once ...
The Walrus

I Was Lonely and Let an App Pick My New Friends. Here’s How It Went

Last summer, I found myself on the market for new friends. I had just moved back home to Toronto after spending four years ...
The Cut on MSN

Should we all start smoking cigarettes again?

We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us.

This zero-waste cocktail bar doesn't even have a trash can. Here's how it works

Some nights, I’m dropping off recyclables at two in the morning, but that’s an awesome feeling,” says Jon Schott, Riff Raff’s ...
eLife

Single-cell lineage tracing identifies hemogenic endothelial cells in the adult mouse bone marrow

Single-cell and bulk lineage tracing reveals that adult bone marrow endothelial cells generate functional hematopoietic progenitor and mature blood cells, expanding the cell sources of postnatal ...