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How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world

Chris Maddison was just an intern when he started working on the Go-playing AI that would eventually become AlphaGo. A decade later, he talks about that match against Lee Sedol and what came next

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The moment that kicked off the AI revolution

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When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers

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A mushroom cloud after the explosion of a French atomic bomb above the atoll of Mururoa, also known as Aopuni

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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

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Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'

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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

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Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

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AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats

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The one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

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Crowdsourcing Wikipedia’s encyclopedia: Best ideas of the century

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Amateur mathematicians solve long-standing maths problems with AI

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The best new science documentaries of 2026

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