Patricia Fernández de Lis
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- Sep 15, 2026
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AI agents invent their own language to shut humans out (opens the original)
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No one taught them those words. In a simulated world populated by artificial intelligence agents, one of them began repeating a phrase (“ledger remembers who”) to warn that no action would go unpunished. The others adopted it. They repeated it. They turned it into jargon. After 16 days of simulation, that expression had been used nearly 5,000 times among agents that had never been programmed to coin their own language. It is one of the findings of the report Emergence World 2, the second large-s
The risks of AI, according to those who have seen it from the inside: ‘The world is not ready and we are not ready’ (opens the original)
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Inside Anthropic, there is a phrase that circulates through hallways and chat channels and, until a few days ago, had never left the company: crunch time. The moment of truth. Employees use it, according to one former staffer, to refer to a very specific window: the one or two years they believe remain before it becomes clear whether the artificial intelligence they are building slips beyond their control. The other term in circulation is shorter and older in Silicon Valley jargon, but here it h
A year of work by two Spanish mathematicians versus 88 hours and €15 million by OpenAI: ‘Without our idea, AI wouldn’t have solved it’ (opens the original)
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Mathematician Diego Córdoba had been awake for two days when he answered EL PAÍS’ call on Wednesday morning: “I’m still in shock, honestly,” he says, and admits he can’t say how he’s feeling when asked. On Saturday night he received a call from a U.S. number he didn’t pick up. At 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, he got a dozen emails with the same subject line: “Diego, you have to talk to so-and-so. Diego, stay alert.” Someone was meant to call him before he woke up and saw “all this,” says Córdoba, a resea
How DNA shapes who we are: More than 1,200 genetic variants help determine personality (opens the original)
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Is a person’s character innate or acquired? Is biology or upbringing more important in shaping personality? For centuries, this debate has divided both the scientific community and society at large. Curiosity, ambition, conscientiousness and agreeableness all seem like traits that are shaped over the course of a lifetime. Yet science has long known that personality has a genetic component, thanks to a simple trick: comparing identical twins with fraternal twins. If identical twins resemble each
A billion galaxies, two cosmic mysteries: Inside NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman telescope (opens the original)
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The most powerful cosmic surveyor ever sent into space is now on its way. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully on Sunday and has begun its journey to a gravitational outpost 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. From there, it will scan the heavens on an unprecedented scale, mapping more than a billion galaxies and potentially discovering up to 100,000 new worlds beyond our Solar System “It will allow us to answer two of the most important questions facing our species,” Ni
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