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 15, 2025
(Wired) – Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current … 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
(The Hedgehog Review) – The health consumer and the illusion of control. Did you know that we can take charge of our health? I myself had not realized this. I had thought that health was a force that mostly percolated along … 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
(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
(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 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
(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
April 4, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready. Agents are the talk of the AI industry—they’re capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex tasks like … Read More
April 3, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – That eyebrow-raising encounter reinforced Padilla’s concern that AI companion bots, which can hold personal conversations with users and even form relationships, pose safety risks for minors, he said in a phone interview Monday. Now Padilla … Read More
April 1, 2025
(IEEE Spectrum) – Twenty years after President Bush laid out his vision for electronic health records, the U.S. has spent $100 billion for systems that keep doctors and nurses glued to their screens Tom’s situation underlines the paradox of how … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Nature) – Improvements to brain–computer interfaces are bringing the technology closer to natural conversational speed. A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what she intends to say nearly instantly. … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Wired) – The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what hope there is for superintelligence safeguarding democracy. Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international … Read More
March 31, 2025
(ABC News) – Aseku was preparing for yet another medical trip until late February when he joined others in the first trial of 3D telemedicine technology in Ghana powered through computer screens in the back of a van. Those behind … Read More
March 31, 2025
(Reuters) – A tie-up between a Chinese research institute and tech company said on Monday that it aims to implant its brain chip into 13 people by the end of this year, in a move that could see it overtake … Read More
March 31, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries. The engineers at a startup called UBTech are training humanlike robots to sort auto … Read More
