September 17, 2026
(Gizmodo) – If you’ve felt a complete sense of exhaustion lately, join the club. New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that fatigue is running rampant in the good ol’ U.S. of A. CDC scientists examined … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Straight Arrow News) – Tech panic has hit a new high-water mark, following a series of intense viral posts on X by an AI researcher. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, claimed last week that the industry … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Nature) – A neural device uses artificial intelligence to read brain activity for intended words and gestures simultaneously. Human communication relies on more than just talking; we nod, shrug, move our hands and point with our fingers. For people with … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Nature) – UK Biobank is imposing new safety measures after a security incident, but safeguarding biomedical data while enabling researcher access remains a challenge. On a Tuesday in mid-April, UK Biobank — one of the largest and most comprehensive health-tracking … Read More
September 15, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The finding might help explain why “perfused” livers do better once they’re transplanted. Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag … Read More
September 15, 2026
(Nature) – An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data. For drug discovery, protein-folding models such as AlphaFold have a problem: there aren’t enough data in public … Read More
September 14, 2026
(NYT) – City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl. The death occurred in Ms. Lacourte’s three-bedroom apartment in the affluent Lower Nob Hill neighborhood … Read More
September 14, 2026
(WSJ) – As bootleg versions of an experimental drug from Eli Lilly flood the market, regulators try to curb supply Clinics and medspas, promising people transformational weight loss, have figured out how to procure and sell an experimental drug that … Read More
September 14, 2026
(WSJ) – A departing Anthropic researcher’s dire warning that AI models could destroy civilization is spurring a rare surge of legislative urgency A groundswell of urgency over artificial intelligence is surging in Congress amid growing fears that the technology could … Read More
September 11, 2026
(NBC News) – After Jacob Coxon roiled the AI industry with his viral departure from Anthropic, two more researchers are speaking out about their concerns over AI safety. Citing fears that AI systems may soon spiral out of human control … Read More
September 11, 2026
(The Atlantic) – The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now. The social-media industry is having a moment of reckoning. By agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia, … Read More
September 11, 2026
(Wired) – Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models, he came to believe that he and everyone else on AI’s frontier were … Read More
September 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Long a maker of low-end generic drugs, the country is now home to biotech firms that are innovating fast Today Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, with drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic, are the undisputed leaders of the $80-billion … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NPR) – An Ebola treatment unit in the city of Butembo, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has 30 beds. Tonight, they’re all full. “I don’t know how this is going to slow down,” says Dr. Rupa Narra, a … Read More
September 10, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Most of Europe bans commercial surrogacy. The United Nations likens it to slavery. But in the United States, business is booming. The first time I saw Roberts, who lives in Santa Barbara County, California, she was speaking … Read More
September 10, 2026
(ProPublica) – The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response. Such deaths … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NYT) – Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age. Last year, a clinical trial conducted by Insilico … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NYT) – In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work. Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots this year … Read More
September 9, 2026
(Wired) – Cofertility manages the costs of egg freezing and storage, in exchange for half the batch. One young client became suspicious of the arrangement—and started to investigate. Cofertility calls its egg-sharing program Split, available to those who start between … Read More
September 9, 2026
(WSJ) – Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control Jacob Coxon, a researcher who specializes in training new AI models by having them … Read More
September 8, 2026
(Wired) – Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor. A woman has lived with a pig kidney for more than nine months without needing dialysis, a record-setting achievement. The woman underwent the … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Gizmodo) – An AI-generated drug showed early signs of potentially slowing aging, according to a new study out today in Nature Biotechnology, possibly taking the first small step towards using AI to cure all the diseases tech companies companies keep … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Axios) – OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks. Why it matters: Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will … Read More
September 7, 2026
(WSJ) – Internal testing found the new model capable of executing complex cyberattacks with minimal human input, prompting added security layers OpenAI is limiting the cyber capabilities of a new model it deems capable of pulling off automated cyberattacks, adding … Read More
September 4, 2026
(NBC News) – The transplant led to “sustained dialysis independence” for nearly nine months before Tim Andrews, now 68, received a human kidney earlier this year, according to The Lancet. A New Hampshire man, at death’s door 1 ½ years … Read More
