March 18, 2026
(Wired) – Dozens of Telegram channels reviewed by WIRED include job listings for “AI face models.” The (mostly) women who land these gigs are likely being used to dupe victims out of their money. A WIRED review of dozens of … Read More
March 18, 2026
(BBC) – Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for “human-made” products and services as part of the growing backlash against AI use. Declarations like “Proudly Human”, “Human-made”, ‘”No A.I” and “AI-free” are appearing across films, marketing, … Read More
March 10, 2026
(The Walrus) – There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan Statistics here are so overwhelming they can feel meaningless. And in a way, they are. Today’s war, if discussed at all, … Read More
February 18, 2026
(Wired) – WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: “People would love to have a clanker as their boss.” The provocatively titled platform enables users to connect … Read More
February 13, 2026
(Wired) – The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight. Cryptocurrency’s frictionless, transnational, low-regulation transactions have … Read More
February 11, 2026
(WSJ) – The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content OpenAI said Beiermeister “made valuable contributions during her time at OpenAI, and her departure was not related … Read More
February 6, 2026
(Futurism) – The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman[dot]ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, … Read More
February 3, 2026
(Reuters via MSN) – A hospital in Barcelona said on Monday it had performed a pioneering facial transplant in which the donor, in a world first, had offered her face for donation before undergoing an assisted dying procedure. The complex … Read More
February 3, 2026
(WSJ) – There is a looming crisis in America’s death industry. Green-Wood Cemetery might have found a lifeline. The storied 478-acre Brooklyn burial ground, like many across the U.S., is running out of room for new occupants. With the help … Read More
February 2, 2026
(New York Times) – Every few months, he acts out more than usual and he is hospitalized. Doctors administer enough medication to briefly calm him, then label him “stable” and “not a harm to self or others” and discharge him … Read More
January 29, 2026
(NPR) – Women selling their eggs illegally is an open secret in the Indian fertility industry. Even though the for-profit industry relies on their biomaterial to keep operating, NPR found that the women whose eggs are harvested are usually poor … Read More
January 27, 2026
(Axios) – The escalation of ICE activity in Minnesota is disrupting care at hospitals and clinics that already were navigating shifting legal standards on immigration enforcement in their facilities. Why it matters: Health workers say many patients aren’t coming in … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Wired) – A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. When immigration agents enter hospitals, and … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Wired) – In a review of 500 Grok images generated between January 6 and January 9, WIRED found that around 5 percent of the output featured an image of a woman who was, as the result of prompts from users, … Read More
January 12, 2026
(Aeon) – In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) that can converse fluidly in the first person, people are … Read More
December 24, 2025
(TGC) – Generative AI (GenAI) is becoming the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Yet as the world marvels at conversing with machines, my continent, Africa, is in a familiar place: Her people are exploited to fuel a technological revolution. … Read More
December 15, 2025
(New York Times) – Eve was one of dozens of Thai women who traveled 4,000 miles — only to be trapped by the dark side of the global fertility industry. More often than not, the women didn’t want to enter … Read More
December 9, 2025
(ProPublica) – The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is the story of American health care. I began to focus on the relationship between Phoebe’s breakneck growth and the rates of chronic illnesses among Albany’s residents and wondered whether the … Read More
November 25, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working? For the past 50 years, the city has tried to hide from this problem in much the same way Ashley hides from her own. The general consensus in America … Read More
November 20, 2025
(WSJ) – Babies delivered under contract rather than into kinship is an ethical nightmare. For too long, affluent nations like the U.S. and the U.K. have tolerated this trade in the name of “choice” and “family equality.” Yet surrogacy is … Read More
November 14, 2025
(UPI) – A large-scale analysis of data from nationwide surveys reveals that lower income and racial minority status are “significantly” associated with more risk factors for dementia disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, a study released Wednesday says. Health data collected … Read More
November 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – A review of the new film and a look at its public health relevance today The film does a commendable job laying out the history of what was a complicated and risky prosecution. The crimes were so … Read More
November 10, 2025
(The Guardian) – Parenthood can seem an impossible dream for many, and online sperm donor groups offer a solution, but they can be a murky world There is a growing number of online sperm donor groups on social media. They … Read More
November 7, 2025
(CT) – Leah Libresco Sargeant’s doggedly pro-life feminist manifesto argues that dependence is inevitable. The normal condition for humans is dependence—we start and finish there, and by gradations we depend on others throughout our lives. A system presupposing independence has … Read More
October 21, 2025
(Maclean’s) – The world’s most powerful companies used my books, and millions more, without permission to train their AI models. I’m suing to stop them. When I learned that my copyrighted work had helped fuel this explosion, I thought of … Read More
