January 8, 2026
(Engadget via MSN) – OpenAI is launching a new facet for its AI chatbot called ChatGPT Health. This new feature will allow users to connect medical records and wellness apps to ChatGPT in order to get more tailored responses to … Read More
January 8, 2026
(New York Times) – The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot. The agreement was one of five lawsuits that the companies agreed to settle … Read More
January 7, 2026
(Axios) – More than 40 million people globally turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, according to a report OpenAI has shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: Americans are turning to AI tools to navigate the notoriously complex and … Read More
January 7, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – One float stood out among the tinsel and holiday cheer at the annual Christmas parade here: an unsightly data center with blinding industrial lights and smoke pouring out of its roof, towering menacingly over a … Read More
January 7, 2026
(Wired) – Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas. Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and … Read More
January 6, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands … Read More
January 6, 2026
(Wired) – Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public. Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the … Read More
January 5, 2026
(WSJ) – Healthcare is going all-in on artificial intelligence, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials Big hospital systems have become the proving ground for widespread AI adoption, testing what the technology can do, but also revealing—sometimes via alarming … Read More
January 5, 2026
(WSJ) – A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems. The tool is called PANDA, short for “pancreatic cancer detection … Read More
January 2, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The real-world consequences of AI therapy came to a head in unexpected ways in 2025 as we waded through a critical mass of stories about human-chatbot relationships, the flimsiness of guardrails on many LLMs, and the … Read More
January 2, 2026
(Wired) – The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive. When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the … Read More
January 2, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink will start “high-volume production” of brain-computer interface devices and move to an entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026, Musk said in a post on the social media platform X on … Read More
January 2, 2026
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 3, no. 1, 2026) is available online by subscription only.
December 31, 2025
(Tech Radar) – I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, three of the best-known and widely used AI chatbots, to predict what everyday life with AI might look like in 2026. I tried to get them to stick to more realistic … Read More
December 31, 2025
(Wired) – Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech? Ten years ago, a Fitbit was about as sophisticated a wearable as you could get. The Apple Watch soon supplanted it, quickly becoming the world’s best-selling smartwatch. … Read More
December 31, 2025
(Market Watch) – Traditional Medicare in six states will soon feel more like privatized Medicare Advantage, using prior authorizations to determine what care can be covered for older adults. Starting in January, about 6.4 million Americans enrolled in traditional Medicare … Read More
December 29, 2025
(STAT News) – The move could make it easier for health systems to adopt AI, while leaving patients vulnerable The Trump administration is proposing to remove requirements that developers of health information software disclose details on the development and testing … Read More
December 26, 2025
(Wired) – Over the past two years, generative AI tools—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini—have moved beyond the relatively straightforward, text-only chatbots that the companies initially released. Instead, Big AI is increasingly building and pushing toward the adoption of … Read More
December 26, 2025
(CNBC) – “In a perfect world … I would spend as much time with [patients] as they need … I would understand their family, I would remember them deeply, and then I would check in on them regularly,” he said. … Read More
December 26, 2025
(WSJ) – Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S. Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control. … Read More
December 24, 2025
(TGC) – Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Yet as the world marvels at conversing with machines, my continent, Africa, is in a familiar place: Her people are exploited to fuel a technological revolution. … Read More
December 24, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – India’s digital systems are built not to profit from users but to govern them. India today sits at a curious intersection of technological optimism and political anxiety. At a time when liberal democracies are scrambling to … Read More
December 24, 2025
(Wired) – More accurate and individualized health predictions will allow for preventative factors to be implemented well in advance. The science of aging has given us new ways to track these processes with body-wide and organ clocks, along with specific … Read More
December 23, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – In the days after H found her daughter’s Character AI chats, H projected an air of normalcy around her daughter, not wanting to do anything that would cause her distress or shame. H contacted her … Read More
December 22, 2025
(Wired) – People have always defaced New York subway ads in every way imaginable, but what happened with the Friend ads tapped into a deep angst about AI. Even as some celebrate its possibilities (drug discovery) and others decry its … Read More
