Small AI models might soon be capable of worming their way into smart ovens and refrigerators, Anthropic said.

According to Anthropic, the most likely scenario is a smaller model—one with 30 billion parameters or fewer—self-replicating ...

If you've recently made the (mildly horrifying) discovery of a slimy growth in your mulch that looks like vomit…well, you're probably wondering what on earth it is and how best to get rid of it. Yes, ...

Anthropic's researchers warned that AI worms could take this threat further by replicating themselves on other devices while ...

Imagine that you are blind, deaf, and without any memory whatsoever. No long-term or short-term memory; you can’t even remember the last step you took. You may have been in this room a million times, ...

Sixteen years ago, a brainless, unicellular organism blew our human minds. And it continues to fascinate and surprise researchers to this day. From the center of a petri dish, the slime mold Physarum ...

Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. With nearly 720 sexes, and the ability to ...

Slime has been present on Earth for almost 2 billion years, according to a reassessment of fossil evidence. The new research confirms that a fossil from Western Australia is the planet’s oldest known ...

Slime mold has one of the worst public images of any single-celled organism. For one thing, the Physarum polycephalum, as it's scientifically called, has a gross nickname evoking a drippy texture and ...