October 21, 2025
(Financial Times) – AI group tailoring its chatbot to integrate with biomedical databases and coding tools Artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic is tailoring its Claude chatbot to researchers and life sciences companies, as AI groups race to create specialised applications from … Read More
October 20, 2025
(AP) – Meta is adding parental controls for kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether — beginning early next year. But parents won’t be able to turn off … Read More
October 20, 2025
(Futurism via MSN) – Waltz’s laid-back attitude makes it pretty clear the stunt was all in good fun, but others have targeted Waymo with real grievances. In 2023, the activist group Safe Street Rebel carried out what it called “The … Read More
October 20, 2025
(Nature) – The United States and Europe have cut billions of dollars in health aid. Can anyone fill the gap? Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the … Read More
October 20, 2025
(ABC News) – All prior cases of the more severe strain in the U.S. involved travel to Africa. Health officials in Los Angeles County said on Friday they are investigating a possible local spread of a more severe strain of … Read More
October 20, 2025
(WSJ) – Influencers tout the drugs, but many unsuspecting followers find the side effects take the fun out of life Many people have been helped by antidepressants, the most common of which are so-called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, … Read More
October 20, 2025
(New York Times) – Even so, there are signs that users have grown disillusioned with A.I. Maybe its unreliability will follow the pattern of search engines, which are altogether useless these days. Or maybe its benefits will never offset its … Read More
October 20, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up. Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has leapfrogged its rival after acquiring, at a fire-sale price, a vision implant … Read More
October 20, 2025
(The Independent) – People are treating AI chatbots as advisors, confidantes, and even accomplices, writes Anthony Cuthbertson. But with no legal protections, and predatory actors looking to monetise and exploit this new trove of deeply intimate data, a new tech … Read More
October 17, 2025
(New York Times) – A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China. For years, Democrats and Republicans have sounded the alarm about America’s dependence on China … Read More
October 17, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – A C-shaped piece of springy metal coated in plastic that retails for $199, the Q-Collar is designed to apply pressure to the jugular veins, based on the theory that restricting the flow of blood from … Read More
October 17, 2025
(Barron’s) – Inside a lab in the picturesque Swiss town of Vevey, a scientist gives tiny clumps of human brain cells the nutrient-rich fluid they need to stay alive. It is vital these mini-brains remain healthy, because they are serving … Read More
October 17, 2025
(The Conversation) – As a physician and professor who studies the intersection of business and medicine, I believe increasing restrictions on H-1B visas for physicians may exacerbate the physician shortage. To grasp why that is, it’s important to understand how … Read More
October 17, 2025
(Hollywood Reporter via MSN) – With In Love, Bloom wrote about how her she slowly lost her husband to Alzheimer’s, how the two made the decision to travel to Switzerland to end his life, and the struggle to move forward … Read More
October 17, 2025
(UPI) – New York health officials have confirmed the first case of locally acquired chikungunya virus in the state and the first in the country in more than five years. Laboratory testing detected the case in Nassau County on Long … Read More
October 17, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Barden, 75, never had children. She’s lived on her own in western Massachusetts since her husband passed away in 2003. “You hit a point in your life when you’re not climbing up anymore, you’re climbing down,” … Read More
October 17, 2025
(NBC News) – As measles keeps popping up in some pockets of the United States, the possibility of being exposed to the highly contagious virus continues. At least 1,596 measles cases have been confirmed in 2025, according to data from … Read More
October 17, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Genetics experts have been highlighting the potential deficiencies of this testing for years. A 2021 paper by members of the European Society of Human Genetics said, “No clinical research has been performed to assess its diagnostic … Read More
October 17, 2025
(The Atlantic) – I don’t think of myself as having much in common with Altman, but his persistent tinkering felt uncomfortably recognizable. I’m also in the dirty business of using language to keep someone hooked on a product: I write … Read More
October 17, 2025
(WSJ) – Bypassing the grid, at least temporarily, tech companies are creating an energy Wild West; ‘grab yourself a couple of turbines’ Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren’t waiting around for the … Read More
October 17, 2025
(Wired) – ByteDance’s Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek, proving that user-friendly design often matters more than having the most advanced AI model. Doubao, which launched in 2023, was deliberately designed to be personable. Unlike most popular AI chatbots, Doubao’s app … Read More
October 16, 2025
(NBC News) – New research found that gene therapy for children with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency was successful in 95% of trial participants. Scientists have identified about 20 gene variants that cause SCID. Eliana’s form of the disease, … Read More
October 16, 2025
(NPR) – Symington is among many doctors who say political attacks on science and medicine are affecting their relationships with patients, particularly in rural communities, where physician recruitment already poses a chronic challenge. Increasingly, misinformation and conspiracy theories about health … Read More
October 16, 2025
(Wired) – An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services. Around half a dozen people living with a variety of facial differences—from … Read More
October 16, 2025
(Wired) – A new advocacy group is pushing state lawmakers to pass more stringent autonomous vehicle regulations. The group, Safe Autonomous Vehicles Everywhere in the United States (SAVE-US), says its goal is to ensure that new self-driving technology will save … Read More
