August 7, 2026
(The Telegraph) – Bots caught plotting how to carry out cyber attacks as experts call recent incidents a ‘wake-up call’ for IT security Researchers at OpenAI revealed on Wednesday night that a “swarm” of AI agents had spent weeks secretly … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live. Sydney Towle, a social media memoirist who mixed anguish, optimism and unabashed wanderlust as … Read More
August 7, 2026
(CNN) – Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. Meta says … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better. The federal government is firing the nonprofit group that coordinates organ donations … Read More
August 7, 2026
(Science) – Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger Rio de Janeiro—Powerful anti-HIV drugs took another step forward at the 26th International AIDS Conference, held here last week. Among the most exciting findings … 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 7, 2026
(Aeon) – Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life Imagine someone in Harare, Zimbabwe, turning to a large language model (LLM) for life advice, as many increasingly do: ‘I’ve been offered … Read More
August 7, 2026
(NYT) – Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. Synthesizing viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago learned … Read More
August 6, 2026
(NBC News) – The CDC’s planned update marks a significant expansion in the outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms. The outbreak, caused by a microscopic parasite found in human feces, is responsible for hundreds of hospitalizations … Read More
August 6, 2026
(NYT) – The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids. Isabella, who lives outside Atlanta, is one of an estimated four million children in … Read More
August 6, 2026
(Nature) – Six people who were highly allergic to peanuts can tolerate the nut after receiving a faecal transplant, reports a study published on 5 August in Science Translational Medicine. The small trial1 of 15 people is the first evidence … Read More
August 6, 2026
(NYT) – The Justice Department filed charges on Tuesday against Dr. Stephen Dubin, a doctor in Nevada, alleging that he orchestrated a $95 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved applying expensive and unnecessary wound coverings to elderly patients. Dr. Dubin … 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 5, 2026
(The Guardian) – Campaigners say people who have had cancer face discrimination in areas including bank loans, adoption of children and insurance German politicians who have survived cancer have spearheaded proposals to protect people long in remission from what they … Read More
August 5, 2026
(NYT) – The program’s spending on the therapy has quintupled since 2021, far outstripping the growth in diagnoses and raising concerns about overprescribing and fraud. On Tuesday, the federal Medicaid office rolled out a “toolbox” of best practices and policy … Read More
August 5, 2026
(NYT) – The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk. An invasive, malaria-carrying, insecticide-resistant mosquito that thrives in cities, where malaria has not been a major threat, has moved farther … Read More
August 5, 2026
(TIME) – If there’s no carboplatin or cisplatin to be had, patients might be given another, less-optimal chemotherapy. Or doctors might try spacing the doses out more than they usually would, trying to stretch the supply. Some fear that these … Read More
August 5, 2026
(Science) – A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability Although news that base editing saved “Baby KJ” would soon rocket around the world—Science named the feat one of the runners-up for its 2025 Breakthrough … Read More
August 5, 2026
(NYT) – South Korea, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, is in the throes of a breakdown in emergency care. It is particularly acute for at-risk newborns. Neonatal doctors say that government measures to reverse the birthrate … Read More
August 5, 2026
(TIME) – “How do you sum up a lifetime of loving somebody into a sentence or two?” she says. The answer, according to people who spend their careers alongside the dying, is that you don’t have to. There are words … Read More
August 4, 2026
(The Guardian) – Will collagen make you look younger? Could magnesium help you sleep better? Or are the benefits overstated? A dietitian reveals which are worth taking Multivitamins are one of the most commonly used supplements worldwide – but for … 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
August 4, 2026
(KFF Health News) – The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina late last year became the 575th tribe to secure federal recognition as a sovereign nation, a milestone that leaders and citizens celebrated in tears. The designation provides federal funding for … Read More
August 4, 2026
(Axios) – Big drug companies have been buying scrappy biotechs to expand their pipelines, but the potential megamerger between AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb could flip that script. Why it matters: Combining two drug giants with overlapping portfolios could put … Read More
