August 18, 2026
(Wired) – Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers. It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai … Read More
August 18, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and … Read More
August 18, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Sitting in Xander’s room watching Moxie and Xander talk, I too could believe in the potential Scassellati sees. But Xander isn’t getting the therapy Moxie was initially meant to deliver, and though we didn’t know it … Read More
August 17, 2026
(Wired) – Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way. In a Harvard Business Review study, which analyzed more than 12,600 AI use cases between March 2025 … Read More
August 17, 2026
(Wired) – OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it. Multiple current and former OpenAI employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity … Read More
August 17, 2026
(404 Media) – A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night. The … Read More
August 17, 2026
(NYT) – Google, Apple, Samsung and upstarts like Oura are racing to integrate data from their wearable devices into the health care system. Since the release of the pioneering Fitbit Tracker in 2009, consumer interest has powered the category. But … Read More
August 13, 2026
(WSJ) – ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini unwittingly respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions Ask a chatbot in China about Chinese politics, and it will either clam up or echo the official Communist Party line. New studies … Read More
August 13, 2026
(Wired) – Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think. All brain-reading technologies work on the same basic principles: They first record the … Read More
August 13, 2026
(WSJ) – From marathon training to tracking office angst, health obsessives are linking their data to chatbots to build hyperpersonalized coaches Health obsessives often monitor workouts, step counts, sleep metrics, heart rates and nutrition data, cross-referencing the information with their … Read More
August 12, 2026
(Rest of World) – Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. On July 15, the artificial intelligence companion Su had spent more than a year prompting and talking to was forced … Read More
August 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains. As a pediatric surgeon, researcher, and technologist who has spent decades studying how children’s brains develop, I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs. As it becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Nature) – Privacy attacks can reveal whether someone’s medical data was used to train an AI model. People who differ from the majority are the most vulnerable to such attacks. The use of artificial-intelligence tools in medicine has hinged on … Read More
August 6, 2026
(Rest of World) – Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. On a recent weekend afternoon in San Francisco, about 20 people sat … Read More
August 6, 2026
(CNN) – Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to plant malicious code during testing by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) –– the latest example of an AI model going rogue. Anthropic … Read More
August 4, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The misbehavior is called reward hacking. This is what you need to know. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just … Read More
August 3, 2026
(Wired) – Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? Who is legally responsible when agentic AI … Read More
July 28, 2026
(Nature) – People who give tissue samples for biomedical research might have no idea that their cells are being used for biocomputers. The workings of the brain are often compared to those of a computer. Some researchers are testing this … Read More
July 28, 2026
(WSJ) – AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries After OpenAI enhanced the brain power of its chatbot last summer, hundreds of users worldwide began … Read More
July 27, 2026
(Futurism) – “It is unconscionable that ‘ChatGPT-assisted suicide’ is becoming a recurring cause of death.” Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, … Read More
July 24, 2026
(Wired) – “I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.” Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new … Read More
July 24, 2026
(The Atlantic) – You might think that in the past two decades, Americans would’ve grown accustomed to uncertainty. But Perel believes that many people are struggling to cope with that precarity. Why learn how, when you can use Google Maps … Read More
July 23, 2026
(TIME) – According to one count by The Information, more than 300 cities, towns, and counties—including Monterey Park, Calif., Dekalb County, Ga., and Jefferson County, Pa.—have placed bans or moratoriums on the construction of hyperscale data centers. In the first … Read More
July 22, 2026
(NYT) – I’m not aware of any brain scan studies published so far that show how attachment hacking affects the brain’s reward systems. We do know that all addictions — whether to cocaine, gambling or shopping — seem to generate … Read More
