May 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – But artificial intelligence on its own will never deny a claim, assures the insurer’s chief digital and technology officer UnitedHealth Group said it now has a thousand artificial-intelligence applications in production, leaning into a technology that’s … Read More
May 6, 2025
(New York Times) – A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why. More than two years after the arrival of ChatGPT, tech companies, office workers and … Read More
May 2, 2025
(New York Times) – Ms. Towle, 25, is now at the center of an intense social media collision that reveals the best intentions and worst instincts of the internet — where isolated strangers can become support systems in times of … Read More
May 2, 2025
(Wired) – The data you are giving away when you use an AI image editor is often hidden. Every time you upload an image to ChatGPT, you’re potentially handing over “an entire bundle of metadata,” says Tom Vazdar, area chair … Read More
May 1, 2025
(Ars Technica) – A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in … Read More
May 1, 2025
(Wired) – Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those changes—and a promised World-branded debit card—signal the company’s ambitions to develop … Read More
April 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do’s—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future No, I’m not an FBI informant. I willingly wore a $50 Bee Pioneer bracelet … Read More
April 29, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – As technologists frame AI as either utopian or dystopian, two researchers offer a third option. So against this backdrop, a recent essay by two AI researchers at Princeton felt quite provocative. Arvind Narayanan, who directs the university’s Center … Read More
April 29, 2025
(404 Media) – Reddit called it an “improper and highly unethical experiment” and said it did not know it was happening. Reddit’s top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent future Microsoft turbocharged the artificial-intelligence startup’s growth over the past six years with billions of dollars … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wired) – Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist. When Italian philosopher and essayist Andrea Colamedici released Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Techradar) – Two years ago, in an interview with The New York Times, Dr Hinton warned, “It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.” Now, in a fresh sit-down, this time with CBS … Read More
April 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Xiaomi collision intensifies regulatory scrutiny as U.S., China compete over driver-assistance technology As Tesla and other automakers have touted their assisted-driving systems with terms such as “autonomous” and “self-driving,” one deadly crash last month involving the technology has … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The fledgling neurotechnology space is filled with products that promise all sorts of utility by reading your brainwaves. Whether they actually accomplish much functionality is debatable, but they are apparently succeeding at monetizing the data they collect from … Read More
April 28, 2025
(New York Times) – As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious. One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones. The key to preventing disasters like this is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Wired) – Automakers are increasingly pushing consumers to accept monthly and annual fees to unlock preinstalled safety and performance features, from hands-free driving systems and heated seats to cameras that can automatically record accident situations. But the additional levels of internet connectivity … Read More
April 28, 2025
(Futurism) – Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world’s top chatbots are still strikingly bad at giving financial advice. AI researchers Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence posed … Read More
April 24, 2025
(Wired) – Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms. It all sounds perfectly plausible, delivered with unwavering confidence. Google even provides reference links in some cases, giving the response an added sheen of authority. It’s also wrong, … Read More
April 23, 2025
(Axios) – Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company’s top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. Why it matters: Managing those AI identities will require companies to reassess … Read More
April 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hims, Keeps and other companies advertise topical finasteride with limited disclosures of side effects The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday posted a warning about generic forms of a popular hair-loss medication often sold by major … Read More
April 23, 2025
(Wired) – Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages. Margaret Mitchell is a pioneer when it comes to testing generative AI tools … Read More
April 22, 2025
(Pew Research Center) – Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age Rising rates of … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Futurism) – Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won’t take orders from us anymore. During a talk at a recent summit co-hosted by Schmidt’s think tank, the Special Competitive Studies Project, … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Wired) – Only six of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts. About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing … Read More
