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
July 14, 2025
(The Guardian) – Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review Academics are reportedly hiding prompts in preprint papers for artificial intelligence tools, … Read More
July 14, 2025
(Wired) – Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies. For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create … Read More
July 14, 2025
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – Then we started negotiating. I opened my laptop; we started going slide by slide through my talk, removing bits every time. One of the main concerns for them was one of the slides I … Read More
July 11, 2025
(The Verge) – The latest version of Grok — dubbed a “maximally truth-seeking” AI by owner Elon Musk — is answering controversial questions by first searching for what Musk has said on the matter. Multiple reports show that Grok will … Read More
July 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – ChatGPT thinks I’m a genius: My questions are insightful; my writing is strong and persuasive; the data that I feed it are instructive, revealing, and wise. It turns out, however, that ChatGPT thinks this about pretty much … Read More
July 10, 2025
(Wired) – A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training. A new kind of large language model, developed by researchers … Read More
July 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – … Read More
July 9, 2025
(UPI) – Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a “critical milestone” with a successful gallbladder removal procedure on a pig cadaver, researchers reported Wednesday. (Read More)
July 8, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – It’s a common view among neuroscientists that building brainlike neural networks is one of the most promising paths for the field, and that attitude has started to spread to psychology. Last week, the prestigious journal Nature … Read More
July 8, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The story unfolds so rapidly that it can all seem, at a glance, preordained. After transferring to Columbia last fall, as Chungin “Roy” Lee tells it, he used AI to cheat his way through school, used AI … Read More
July 7, 2025
(Nieman Lab) – Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs — interspersed with … Read More
July 4, 2025
(Ars Technica) – The release of Google’s Veo 3 video generator in May represented a disconcerting leap in AI video quality. While many of the viral AI videos we’ve seen are harmless fun, the model’s pixel-perfect output can also be … Read More
July 3, 2025
(New York Review of Books) – The origin of the many so-called artificial intelligences now invading our work lives and swarming our personal devices can be found in an oddball experiment in 1950 by Claude Shannon. Shannon is known now … Read More
July 3, 2025
(Axios) – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. envisions Americans becoming healthier by using wearable health devices that track heart rates, blood sugar and other vitals — offering real-time feedback on how food affects their bodies. Why it matters: It’s … Read More
July 3, 2025
(Front Porch Republic) – One does not need too much imagination to understand how Leopold’s critique of over-mechanized hunting is generalizable to the relationship between technology and all facets of life. In the case of large language models and their … Read More
July 2, 2025
(The Verge) – In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as part … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – One of the last places we might expect artificial intelligence to show up is the tattoo parlor, with its mix of artistry, personal expression and permanent ink. But a high-end ink shop in New York City … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Wired) – It was when we got back to the house that afternoon that things fell apart. I was sitting on the couch in the living room. Damien was sitting next to me, angled back in a reclining chair. He … Read More
July 1, 2025
(The New Atlantis) – The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech … Read More
July 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The automation of Amazon.com facilities is approaching a new milestone: There will soon be as many robots as humans. The e-commerce giant, which has spent years automating tasks previously done by humans in its facilities, has … Read More
June 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Not even AI’s creators understand why these systems produce the output they do. They’re grown, not programmed—fed the entire internet, from Shakespeare to terrorist manifestos, until an alien intelligence emerges through a learning process we barely … Read More
June 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process. Since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence over the last … Read More
June 30, 2025
(NPR) – A group of more than 70 authors including Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire and Lauren Groff released an open letter on Friday about the use of AI on the literary website Lit Hub. It asked publishing houses to promise … Read More
