April 22, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – Social media became a place of both solace and torment. How much was mine to share? The urge to consult my phone overpowered me. I could already perceive how it was mediating my relationship with … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Wired) – LG has licensed tech that claims to interpret TV users’ feelings and convictions. The company will use this data to more directly target the ads it’s showing to users of its smart TV platform. LG TVs will soon … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Futurism) – Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won’t take orders from us anymore. During a talk at a recent summit co-hosted by Schmidt’s think tank, the Special Competitive Studies Project, … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Wired) – Only six of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts. About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing … Read More
April 21, 2025
(The Guardian) – Men who have virtual “wives” and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy. Dozens of readers shared their … Read More
April 18, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 4 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 17, 2025
(Wired) – Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.” American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are … Read More
April 15, 2025
(New York Times) – In the first clinical trial of its kind, an A.I. chatbot eased mental health symptoms among participants. The technology may someday help solve the provider shortage. Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Quanta) – Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools. Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Tech Radar) – Millions have already given away their face and sensitive data to jump on the latest viral AI trend Right after the Ghibli-style AI image trend began to wear off, ChatGPT and similar tools found a new way … Read More
April 15, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Phones and screens play an important role in the show. At home, Jaime, the 13-year-old accused killer, has a computer in his room, which his middle-class father was proud to be able to give him. At school, … Read More
April 14, 2025
(Slate) – More than a decade later, the movie’s message isn’t what I remembered—and it’s way more unnerving than I expected. We’ve all been Theo and we’ve all been her. Idealizing the perfect relationship but never quite facing ourselves to … Read More
April 11, 2025
(New York Times) – A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in … Read More
April 10, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her testimony on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted teens with advertisements … Read More
April 10, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The European Union said it would focus on building artificial-intelligence data and computing infrastructure and making it easier for companies to comply with regulation in a bid to catch up with the U.S. and China in … Read More
April 10, 2025
(New Scientist) – A baby has been born after being conceived via IVF performed by a machine, with a medical professional merely overseeing the process In one step, the machine uses an AI model to select the healthiest sperm cells … Read More
April 9, 2025
(NPR) – New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians. The recent study, published in the New England Journal … Read More
April 9, 2025
(Venture Beast) – Deep Cogito, a new AI research startup based in San Francisco, officially emerged from stealth today with Cogitov1, a new line of open source large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.2 and equipped with hybrid … Read More
April 9, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 8, 2025
(Digital Trends) – Barely a few months ago, Wall Street’s big bet on generative AI had a moment of reckoning when DeepSeek arrived on the scene. Despite its heavily censored nature, the open source DeepSeek proved that a frontier reasoning … Read More
April 8, 2025
(The Guardian) – Meta is expanding its safety measures for teenagers on Instagram with a block on livestreaming, as the social media company extends its under-18 safeguards to the Facebook and Messenger platforms. Under-16s will be barred from using Instagram’s … Read More
April 7, 2025
(CNET) – Scientists used a brain implant and generative AI to give a woman her voice back and help her talk in near real time. It’s one example of how generative AI tools — using the same underlying technology that … Read More
April 7, 2025
(Ars Technica) – As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities. If today’s AI systems are on … Read More
April 7, 2025
(New York Times) – This svelte humanoid greeted me with what seemed to be a Scandinavian accent, and I offered to shake hands. As our palms met, it said: “I have a firm grip.” When the home’s owner, a Norwegian … Read More
April 4, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Google’s director and head of product for Gemini, Tulsee Doshi, told TechCrunch in an interview that the increasing cadence of the company’s model launches is part of a concerted effort to keep up with the rapidly evolving AI … Read More
