May 7, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Kolin Koltai, a researcher at the Netherlands-based investigative outlet Bellingcat, recently discovered that X users were using the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, to undress women in photos that they had uploaded to the platform. While the bot rejects … Read More
May 7, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have AI friends, an AI therapist and AI business agents. In Zuckerberg’s vision for a new digital future, artificial-intelligence friends outnumber human companions and chatbot experiences supplant therapists, ad agencies and … Read More
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
(Undark) – A study published in March in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances examined electronic medical records to compare approximately 93,000 cannabis users with roughly 4.5 million non-users. It found that relatively healthy individuals under 50 … Read More
May 6, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Eight states — New York, Maine, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington — have passed laws since 2022 to protect doctors who mail abortion pills out of state, and thereby block or “shield” them … Read More
May 6, 2025
(NPR) – More American adults with mental health needs have been getting talk therapy in recent years, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study also found that the number of people using only … Read More
May 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak, logging its first cases since 2011. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the … 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 5, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Earlier that morning, Johnson, in worn trainers and the kind of hoodie that is almost certainly deceptively expensive, had told the audience about what he saw as the end of humanity. Specifically, he was worried about … Read More
May 5, 2025
(New York Times) – The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to sharply restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone — taking the same position as the Biden administration in a closely … Read More
May 5, 2025
(Unherd) – On 31 January, 2024, Wade was running out of time. He had tried everything to persuade his 28-year-old daughter, Marge, that she could get better. But Marge had been scheduled to die by assisted suicide at 2 p.m. … Read More
May 5, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided to try something that … Read More
May 5, 2025
(Financial Times) – As more people enter their late thirties and forties without a long-term partner, within that group is a growing demographic — mostly women — choosing to embark on parenthood alone. The number of single patients undertaking fertility … 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
(New York Times) – Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species. Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with more than … Read More
May 2, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus that kills piglets. The illness is called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or PRRS. A few … Read More
May 2, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Unexpected delays in billions of dollars of supplemental Medicaid payments have forced some hospitals across the country to cut costs including laying off staff and pausing payments to medical suppliers. Hospital associations in at least 10 … 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
(The Atlantic) – At a time when birth rates are declining across the world, techno-polygamy might sound like a good model for those who can afford it. But research on family structure has found that wealth and good genes aren’t … 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
May 1, 2025
(Boston Magazine) – When Sharon sophomore Rohan Shukla suffered a devastating brain injury during a Thanksgiving game, the small Massachusetts town had to confront a difficult question: How can we get the balance of sports culture and student safety right? … Read More
April 30, 2025
(NPR) – Older Americans want to know if they are in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and would happily take a blood test to find out, according to a national survey. The survey of 1,700 people 45 and older, … Read More
April 30, 2025
(New York Times) – New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes … Read More
April 30, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The pharmaceutical industry translated a wonky policy topic into a talking point repeated by a range of groups Drugmakers spent a record $31 million to lobby in Washington last year, and about $13 million in the … 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
