March 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A Tennessee cancer clinic is beaming doctors out to rural areas, a new model of telehealth that goes beyond clunky videoconferencing systems Last year, some cancer patients in Tennessee and Mississippi got a startling offer: Instead … Read More
March 11, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The term is everywhere this week, but its meaning is as vague as ever. Working on a definition matters. The concept of artificial general intelligence—an ultra-powerful AI system we don’t have yet—can be thought of as … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Axios) – Just days after its announcement, a new AI agent named Manus is winning expert acclaim while stoking concern over another AI advance rooted in Chinese research and development. Driving the news: Manus AI, named after the Latin word … Read More
March 10, 2025
(The Verge) – ChatGPT has a trolley problem problem. ChatGPT’s ethics framework, which is probably the most extensive outline of a commercial chatbot’s moral vantage point, was bad for my blood pressure. First of all, lip service to nuance aside, … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Wired) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has filed applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to exclusively own the names Telepathy, Telekinesis, and others for future products. Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, is developing … Read More
March 7, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Australian Broadcasting Co via MSN) – On a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells sat inside a box on a table in Brunswick. While the neurons were too small to see with … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill headed to the desk of Gov. … Read More
March 6, 2025
(The Walrus) – Recently, a new kind of Magic Bag has found its way into the real world. For some years, I have taught philosophy, mostly ethics, at a university in California. I teach a mix of in-person and online … Read More
March 5, 2025
(Wired) – A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable. Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always … Read More
March 5, 2025
(Mashable) – Character chatbots are a prolific online safety threat, according to a new report on the dissemination of sexualized and violent bots via character platforms like the now infamous Character[dot]AI. Published by Graphika, a social network analysis company, the … Read More
March 4, 2025
(Nature) – From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming strategies. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described krankhafte Kauflust — the pathological desire to buy — as … Read More
March 4, 2025
(Axios) – New York University’s Langone Health will use Amazon’s palm recognition technology for patient check-ins, the health system announced Monday as a major health information technology conference kicked off. Why it matters: The new system, which will be optional … Read More
February 28, 2025
(CNet) – With a pregnancy study and a smarter cycle-tracking approach, Oura is delivering more accurate health insights If you track your health with wearable tech, you’ll know that pregnancy and menstrual cycles have long been limited in the insights … Read More
February 28, 2025
(NBC News) – Faulty use of facial recognition technology led to the unjust arrest of a Detroit woman, she said in a federal lawsuit, claiming police failed to ask basic questions that could’ve cleared her on the spot. LaDonna Crutchfield, … Read More
February 28, 2025
(Wired) – GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with their prompts. Users who want to be part of the first wave … Read More
February 27, 2025
(Mashable) – Google has secured FDA clearance for its first-to-market pulse detection feature intended to aid smartwatch wearers who may experience isolated medical emergencies. Powered by an AI-based algorithm and a device “multipath heart rate sensor,” the smartwatch can detect … Read More
February 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – While their jobs may be straightforward and menial, these “Digit” robots are a direct replacement for the humans who would otherwise be doing this work. They are also a flexible bridge between the other less versatile automated … Read More
February 26, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Imagine heading out for a run on a cold winter day clad in athletic gear with sensors and microelectronics woven into the very fiber to constantly monitor your vital signs, even running the occasional app. MIT scientists … Read More
February 25, 2025
(Wired) – Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems. Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by exiles from OpenAI, has introduced the first AI model … Read More
February 24, 2025
(USA Today) – The increase in AI and technological advances in U.S. classrooms has challenged English teachers to adapt their reading lessons and writing assignments. Some of these educational AI technology products on the market can help kids learn to … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. The … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Aeon) – We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again? These apps and algorithms are part of a growing class of technologies that marry artificial intelligence (AI) with the … Read More
February 21, 2025
(Wired) – Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found. A WIRED investigation into the inner workings of Google’s advertising ecosystem … Read More
February 21, 2025
(The Hill) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a probe into leading technology companies’ content policies and user bans, Chair Andrew Ferguson announced Thursday, suggesting their actions could amount to illegal censorship. “Big Tech censorship is not just … Read More
