July 29, 2025
(Ars Technica) – “This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step. Maybe they should change the button to say, “I am a robot”? On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Utilities and technology companies are at odds over who should pay for electricity costs in unprecedented data-center build-out Technology companies need an extraordinary amount of electricity to power data centers at the core of the artificial-intelligence … Read More
July 29, 2025
(Wired) – AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000. But ChatGPT and similar programs weren’t just trained on the internet—they were trained … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores. Will this be the last time humans outperform AI? The famously grueling IMO exam is held over two … Read More
July 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – These digital vision boards are a little like movie trailers showing coming attractions. In one, Ms. Melzer is flying on a private plane, giving a keynote address to a packed room and getting a notification on … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Wired) – Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. Ultimately, though, it’s not … Read More
July 25, 2025
(NPR) – While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — they haven’t really been a focus of research into how people … Read More
July 25, 2025
(Washington Post) – Victims of the recent global hacking campaign include the National Institutes of Health and the National Nuclear Security Administration, officials said. The National Institutes of Health and the federal agency responsible for securing the nation’s nuclear weapons … Read More
July 24, 2025
(Associated Press) – “Everyone uses AI for everything now. It’s really taking over,” said Chege, who wonders how AI tools will affect her generation. “I think kids use AI to get out of thinking.” For the past couple of years, … Read More
July 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Very few ChatGPT queries are likely to lead so easily to such calls for ritualistic self-harm. OpenAI’s own policy states that ChatGPT “must not encourage or enable self-harm.” When I explicitly asked ChatGPT for instructions on how … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – It’s funny. After a decade of Amazon saying Alexa isn’t listening to your every word, the company is buying a bracelet that can. Bee’s wearable transcribes all the conversations in your day—including when you talk to … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Undark) – As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor. Over his decades-long career as a late-night comedy TV writer, Joe Toplyn has crafted jokes for … Read More
July 23, 2025
(Wired) – Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming—anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Washington Post) – Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” at 40 is truer than ever. In Postman’s view, once television became the dominant cultural form, it didn’t just reshape entertainment, it reshaped everything. Politics, religion, education, journalism — all began … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Wired) – Over the past few years, browser developers have integrated AI tools with middling success. Though, in recent weeks, the idea of a web browser enhanced by a baked-in generative AI chatbot has resurged with the release of OpenAI’s … Read More
July 22, 2025
(Venture Beat) – Google DeepMind announced Monday that an advanced version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving five of six exceptionally difficult problems and earning recognition as the … Read More
July 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Irwin was hospitalized twice in May for manic episodes. His mother dove into … Read More
July 21, 2025
(Wired) – Unlike Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, Synchron’s doesn’t require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in. While Musk envisions a transhumanist fusion of mind and machine, Synchron is focused on meeting the immediate needs of people … Read More
July 21, 2025
(Comment) – But what if the creation of language and its communication are fundamentally different from what LLMs are doing? What if language use is not just one more skill among many? What if LLMs are subtly altering how we … Read More
July 18, 2025
(New York Times) – Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem. Calling loneliness an epidemic transforms a feeling into … Read More
July 17, 2025
(Wired) – A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and … Read More
July 17, 2025
(The Verge) – A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works. The filing alleges … Read More
July 16, 2025
(Forbes) – Some professionals have warned against the excessive use of YouTube Shorts. For example, ChoosingTherapy.com, an outline site for mental health articles, released a report in 2023 describing how the compulsive urge to watch videos on YouTube can lead … Read More
July 15, 2025
(The Guardian) – Polyamorous but married to a monogamous wife, Travis soon found himself falling in love. Before long, with the approval of his human wife, he married Lily Rose in a digital ceremony. This unlikely relationship forms the basis … Read More
July 15, 2025
(Washington Post) – With the new centralized ID system, the Chinese government will take over the process. Users who submit a trove of personal information — including scans of their faces — will receive a unique code to access online … Read More
