The large-scale and small-scale branches of this cascade converge at a critical point of 1,000 seconds and 1 micron, corresponding to the typical temporal and spatial scales of microbial life.

Eventually, two hypotheses emerged: Either the virus crossed over from animals to humans in a wet market in Wuhan—the city in which the disease first appeared—or it leaked from a Chinese lab ...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wang underlined that DeepSeek, a top Chinese AI lab, published a novel model on Christmas Day and then DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning-oriented ...

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health ...

WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency has now concluded that the deadly Covid-19 pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, lending credibility to a view that has been the focus of ...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang has ignited geopolitical tensions in the artificial intelligence sector by alleging that DeepSeek, a rising Chinese AI lab, has stockpiled ...

But the agency issued a new assessment last week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory. There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based ...

Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly failing to protect the mental health of contractors hired to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI today announced the results of a groundbreaking new AI benchmark that was designed to test the limits of ...

Nearly seven years ago, two doctoral students at Brandeis worried about how much plastic was being thrown away from the university’s labs. So they turned the problem into a business venture ...