December 17, 2025
(Noema) – Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations. The loudest prophets of superintelligence are those building the very systems they warn against. When Sam … Read More
December 16, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Though the technology may have been billed as a universal multitool that could revamp outdated business processes and cut costs, a number of studies published this year suggest that firms are failing to make the AI … Read More
December 15, 2025
(Ars Technica) – OpenAI is facing increasing scrutiny over how it handles ChatGPT data after users die, only selectively sharing data in lawsuits over ChatGPT-linked suicides. Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before … Read More
December 15, 2025
(Axios) – Churches across the U.S. and abroad are quietly experimenting with AI-generated Christmas content, from Nativity visuals and kids’ lessons to full Christmas Eve sermons. Why it matters: Christmas services draw some of the year’s largest crowds, and churches’ … Read More
December 11, 2025
(The Independent) – When a ‘creepy’ AI startup went viral for its unsettling depiction of a family continuing its relationship with a woman after her death, many called it dystopian. They see it another way — and they’re not the … Read More
December 11, 2025
(The Guardian) – Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery The watches are built and operated by BI Inc, a company specializing in monitoring tech that runs the US government’s largest immigrant … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – The self-driving car company Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles in four American cities through June 2025, the biggest trove of information released so far about safety. I spent weeks analyzing the … Read More
December 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services It was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels. In the two months since Sora arrived, deceptive videos have surged on TikTok, X, YouTube, … Read More
December 10, 2025
(CNN) – A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday. And regulators, parents and teenagers around the globe are watching closely to see how it plays … Read More
December 9, 2025
(Seen & Unseen) – Just like the technologies which Arendt envisaged in the 1950s, it is too anthropocentric to think of LLMs as being ‘primarily designed to make human life easier and human ‘work’ less painful’. For sure, this very … Read More
December 9, 2025
(CBS News) – Two years ago, 13-year-old Juliana Peralta took her life inside her Colorado home after her parents say she developed an addiction to a popular AI chatbot platform called Character AI. Parents Cynthia Montoya and Wil Peralta, said … Read More
December 4, 2025
(Wired) – Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. Members of Congress considered 19 online safety … Read More
December 4, 2025
(STAT News) – Even after a lot of studies, researchers don’t quite know why With a promise to reduce burden on overworked doctors, ambient scribes that automate the process of writing clinical notes have become the vanguard use case for … Read More
December 3, 2025
(NPR) – If you have ever sworn off social media for a week or two because you sensed it was feeding your anxiety or dampening your mood, you may be on to something. A new study out last week in … Read More
December 3, 2025
(Axios) – Preteens who own smartphones are likelier to have depression, obesity and insufficient sleep than their peers, according to a new University of Pennsylvania-led study. Why it matters: Roughly half of American kids now own a smartphone by the … Read More
December 2, 2025
(After Babel) – I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling — and all too familiar. So, borrowing from the cybersecurity concept of red teaming — the practice of hiring an entity to pretend they … Read More
December 2, 2025
(The Verge) – Amazon could be accelerating the dangerous levels of nitrates in Morrow County’s drinking water. Morrow County, Oregon, is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, … Read More
December 1, 2025
(WSJ) – A generational rift hangs over the reboot of the plant to power Microsoft data centers. For some, it is a step backward; for others, it is the key to economic revival. Forty-six years have passed since America’s worst … Read More
November 28, 2025
(The Verge) – OpenAI said chats cited in a family’s lawsuit ‘require more context.’ OpenAI’s response to a lawsuit by the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who took his own life after discussing it with ChatGPT for months, said … Read More
November 28, 2025
(New York Times) – Silicon Valley’s pivot to synthetic intimacy makes sense: Emotional attachment maximizes engagement. But there’s a dark side to A.I. companions, whose users are not just the lonely males of internet lore, but women who find them … Read More
November 28, 2025
(The Times) – Colossus, an xAI computer facility, is blamed for worsening air pollution in a historic black community On the banks of the Mississippi, a sulfurous stench hits the back of the throat near Elon Musk’s Colossus, the largest … Read More
November 28, 2025
(Futurism) – A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. Too bad he forgot the password. It sounds like a short story cooked up … Read More
November 28, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 11, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 26, 2025
(Rest of World) – Since its November 2022 launch, ChatGPT has been a global phenomenon. Here’s a look at its impact on work, life, and more across the world. Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot … Read More
