November 14, 2025
(Wired) – Secret chatbot flings are creating new legal challenges for married couples when it comes to infidelity. As chatbot romances become more commonplace, causing lasting rifts in relationships, a new legal frontier is emerging in family law that is … Read More
November 13, 2025
(Gizmodo) – New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming. Improved benchmarks may win over some users, but the biggest change with GPT-5.1 is in its presentation. OpenAI says it heard from … Read More
November 13, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. That’s a big deal, because today’s LLMs are black boxes: Nobody fully understands how they do what … Read More
November 12, 2025
(WSJ) – America holds a sizable lead, but China is working to tip the scales with a sweeping countrywide push, betting ‘swarms beat the titan’ The escalating AI race is drawing comparisons with the Cold War, and the great scientific … Read More
November 12, 2025
(New York Times) – For the vast majority of my psychotherapy patients, the gravitational pull of phones and social media alters the most important aspects of who they are, their relationships with others and how they move through the world. … Read More
November 12, 2025
(Wired) – Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. But I was also a little bewildered. Because first of all, … Read More
November 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – OpenAI’s lawyers had some inquiries for the opposing counsel, which is normal. For instance, they requested information about therapy Raine may have received, and Edelson complied. But some of the asks began to feel invasive, he told … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired Videos) – The ability to communicate with the dead. Immortality. Conquering death and breaking down the impenetrable barrier between the living and departed: it’s something humans have long strived for. Are advancements in technology bringing us closer to that … Read More
November 7, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – How do you end up with an A.I. lover? Some turned to them during hard times in their real-world marriages, while others were working through past trauma. Though critics have sounded alarms about dangers like … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired) – TB is the world’s top infectious disease killer — with 3,500 people dying of it each day for an annual total of more than 1.2 million deaths. And the numbers are going up. One of the hurdles in … Read More
November 7, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 10, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – If you ask an LLM to explain its own reasoning process, it may well simply confabulate a plausible-sounding explanation for its actions based on text found in its training data. To get around this problem, Anthropic is … Read More
November 5, 2025
(New York Times) – The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. Letters to the editor from writers using chatbots are flooding … Read More
November 5, 2025
(STAT News) – The meeting comes amid mounting negative reports about conversational artificial intelligence tools A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will meet Thursday to explore a topic that’s been taboo during the Trump administration: Regulating artificial intelligence. The … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Quanta Magazine) – If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself. … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations. There was the picture of herself hanging from a noose, dead. And another of herself ablaze, screaming. The posts were part of … Read More
November 3, 2025
(WSJ) – It was so much easier to have a conversation with a chatbot than a human being. But the more I talked to AI, the less I talked to everybody else. Talking to an AI every day satisfied my … Read More
October 31, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Anyone with a computer has been asked to “select every image containing a traffic light” or “type the letters shown below” to prove that they are human. While these log-in hurdles — called reCAPTCHA tests — may … Read More
October 31, 2025
(WSJ) – 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you? Neo’s creator, 1X Technologies, is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting … Read More
October 30, 2025
(AP) – Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist, according to attorneys and court … Read More
October 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. Confronted with allegations that they had cheated in an introductory … Read More
October 29, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – An AI model released by Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI’s ability to “remember. Released last week, the optical character recognition (OCR) model works by extracting text from an image … Read More
October 29, 2025
(Wired) – In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third? To recap: If, over the past few decades, tech became the new religion, and then religion became the religion, you could say that AI is … Read More
October 28, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively. In a given week, OpenAI estimated that … Read More
