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
December 22, 2025
(Axios) – Most teens now use generative AI, even as parents and schools struggle to keep up with guidance on how to keep kids safe. Why it matters: Kids’ AI habits are outpacing adult oversight, raising concerns about privacy, development … Read More
December 22, 2025
(CNET) – Recent demonstrations and lawsuits over the strength of AI humanoid robots raise essential questions about safety standards. First in the spotlight is the robotics company Figure AI, which is facing a lawsuit from former safety engineer Robert Gruendel. … Read More
December 22, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Waymo suspended its robotaxi service in San Francisco on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets. Numerous photos and videos posted to social media captured Waymo robotaxis stalled … Read More
December 19, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the plans. It will focus on using ultrasound to … Read More
December 19, 2025
(Wired) – Haotian is just one part of the wider tech ecosystem that has emerged around Southeast Asia’s booming cybercrime industry and forced labor scam compounds. And as face swapping and other video deepfake tools have become more widely available, … Read More
December 17, 2025
(Axios) – The once-distant prospect of AI models executing cyberattacks fully on their own now looks unavoidable, according to a range of recent academic studies and industry warnings. Why it matters: This is the worst AI tools will likely ever … Read More
December 17, 2025
(Noema) – Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations. The loudest prophets of superintelligence are those building the very systems they warn against. When Sam … Read More
December 16, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Though the technology may have been billed as a universal multitool that could revamp outdated business processes and cut costs, a number of studies published this year suggest that firms are failing to make the AI … Read More
December 15, 2025
(Ars Technica) – OpenAI is facing increasing scrutiny over how it handles ChatGPT data after users die, only selectively sharing data in lawsuits over ChatGPT-linked suicides. Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before … Read More
December 15, 2025
(The Guardian) – Analysts say benefits could be felt in under-resourced rural hospitals but warn against AI as a cost-cutting measure For states to receive certain funding stipulated in the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful” bill, they must meet three of … Read More
December 15, 2025
(Axios) – Churches across the U.S. and abroad are quietly experimenting with AI-generated Christmas content, from Nativity visuals and kids’ lessons to full Christmas Eve sermons. Why it matters: Christmas services draw some of the year’s largest crowds, and churches’ … Read More
December 12, 2025
(WSJ) – President wants one federal AI standard advocated by tech companies President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to override state laws on artificial intelligence. The order would allow the Justice Department to punish states with rules … Read More
December 12, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 12, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 11, 2025
(The Independent) – When a ‘creepy’ AI startup went viral for its unsettling depiction of a family continuing its relationship with a woman after her death, many called it dystopian. They see it another way — and they’re not the … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – The self-driving car company Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles in four American cities through June 2025, the biggest trove of information released so far about safety. I spent weeks analyzing the … Read More
December 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services It was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels. In the two months since Sora arrived, deceptive videos have surged on TikTok, X, YouTube, … Read More
December 9, 2025
(Seen & Unseen) – Just like the technologies which Arendt envisaged in the 1950s, it is too anthropocentric to think of LLMs as being ‘primarily designed to make human life easier and human ‘work’ less painful’. For sure, this very … Read More
December 9, 2025
(CBS News) – Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home after her parents say she developed an addiction to a popular AI chatbot platform called Character AI. Parents Cynthia Montoya and Wil Peralta, said … Read More
