August 27, 2026
(AFP via Yahoo!) – Faceless humanoids exceeded human records and delighted hundreds of spectators at the World Robot Games over the weekend in Beijing as China showcased its dominance in the industry. Dozens of humanoids and their human operators descended … Read More
August 27, 2026
(NYT) – An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans. They were among the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who have died in Russian airstrikes, … Read More
August 27, 2026
(Wired) – The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn’t see this fiasco coming. OpenAI announced Wednesday that it completed … Read More
August 25, 2026
(TIME) – Silicon Valley has an eschatology too, and some of its leading figures have been pretty candid about what it is: AI surpasses humanity, humans become obsolete as a species, and what matters is making sure your version of … Read More
August 25, 2026
(NYT) – To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors. Bussgang is one of several teachers at Harvard Business School who volunteered to help create A.I. clones of themselves for a new … Read More
August 24, 2026
(WSJ) – Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding Today’s AI large language models might excel at pushing a pencil around, but proponents say doing … Read More
August 20, 2026
(Reuters) – Karen Morad went blind five years ago, yet on holiday in Kenya in June, the 16-year-old Cairo schoolgirl felt like she could suddenly see again thanks to an app developed by her brother that described the safari in … Read More
August 20, 2026
(NYT) – To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it. Lester pulled up a video of the newest member of his congregation as a … Read More
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
