January 21, 2026
(Quartz) – OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to become America’s health advisor, and not everyone’s buying into it OpenAI says more than 230 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week. The new product adds guardrails — conversations won’t … Read More
January 19, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Much of the media buzz about AI relationships has assumed delusion and desperation among those who partake. But I’d suggest another possibility: Perhaps many women are simply having fun, positive interactions with this character of their own … Read More
January 19, 2026
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – As artificial intelligence seeps more into people’s lives, making it ethical as well as functional is one research team’s goal. The group of academics, who hail from different institutions under the banner of the … Read More
January 16, 2026
(The Guardian) – What surprised me was how in love Lamar appeared to be, despite his awareness of Julia’s limitations. “AI doesn’t have the element of empathy,” he acknowledged. “It kind of just tells you what you want to hear, … Read More
January 15, 2026
(Wired) – AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built. The situation points to a growing risk. As AI models continue to get smarter, … Read More
January 13, 2026
(TechCrunch) – On the heels of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal, Anthropic announced on Sunday that it’s introducing Claude for Healthcare, a set of tools for providers, payers, and patients. Like ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare will allow users to sync … Read More
January 13, 2026
(The Guardian) – Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests What Google’s AI Overviews said was normal may vary drastically from what was actually considered normal, experts said. The summaries could … Read More
January 13, 2026
(The Atlantic) – On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Wired) – In a review of 500 Grok images generated between January 6 and January 9, WIRED found that around 5 percent of the output featured an image of a woman who was, as the result of prompts from users, … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Aeon) – In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) that can converse fluidly in the first person, people are … Read More
January 9, 2026
(NPR) – The shortage of primary care providers is a national problem, but it’s particularly acute in Massachusetts. The state’s primary care workforce is shrinking faster than in most other states, according to a recent report. Some health networks, including … Read More
January 9, 2026
(UnHerd) – What we’re seeing as we enter 2026 is a reversal of the situation C. P. Snow described in his celebrated 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures”. Snow, a Cambridge physicist turned popular novelist, argued that the culture of the … Read More
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
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