• Google AI splits opinion on its risks and ambitions

    An internal fight over whether Google built technology with human-like consciousness has spilled into the open, exposing the ambitions and risks inherent in artificial intelligence that can feel all too real.
  • Russia drafts thousands in Syria to fight in Ukraine war

    Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militia ranks to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor reported Tuesday.
  • Fighting erupts in Syria between IS and Kurdish forces

    Fighting raged for a third day Saturday between the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces in Syria after IS attacked a prison housing jihadists, in violence that has claimed over 70 lives, a monitor said.
  • China’s 70-year effort makes it malaria-free

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