September 30, 2025
(Wired) – The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video generation model. OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The … Read More
September 29, 2025
(After Babel) – Your life is my background noise Marketing your memories also desecrates them. You hand over your hope, your hurt, your life to be consumed, reducing it to reality TV. Your precious memories are my mindless entertainment. Your … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Discover) – The vaccine is a modified version of the COVID-19 mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines. To create the allergy vaccine, researchers adjusted the mRNA message: instead of producing spike proteins like in the COVID-19 vaccine, the allergy vaccine instructs cells … Read More
September 29, 2025
(NPR) – “They were relatively young, thin and kind of undernourished looking,” says Boyne. Normally, that would point to Type 1 diabetes, where individuals are unable to make their own insulin and can become underweight. But these 13 patients never … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Medscape) – First came the college data: An MIT team reported in June that when students used ChatGPT to write essays, they incurred cognitive debt and “users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels” causing a “likely decrease in … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Aeon) – Countless species are dying from human-induced environmental change. Should we use genetic technology to alter and save them? It wasn’t our intention that humanity would become the planet’s greatest evolutionary force; yet the fact that we are confronts … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours. Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT safety tools intended for parents … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Wired) – Serena Williams, Elon Musk and Whoopi Goldberg have all spoken about using weight-loss injections. Some are now prescribed by the NHS, including Wegovy and Mounjaro, generating scores of headlines. Really, this should have made it a great leveller. … Read More
September 29, 2025
(Wired) – The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue. Microplastics could be a factor in driving up cases of osteoporosis worldwide, … Read More
September 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Generative AI has enabled the production of child sexual abuse images to skyrocket. Now the leading investigator of child exploitation in the US is experimenting with using AI to distinguish AI-generated images from material depicting real … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Nature) – Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol will, scientists say. Researchers are concerned about what will happen should pregnant women follow US President Donald Trump’s advice to avoid the painkiller Tylenol — also called … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Health-tech companies are designing models that identify patients at risk of developing cancer, and who might need more screening or preventive care Researchers and companies are designing artificial-intelligence models to predict a woman’s near-future breast-cancer risk, … Read More
September 26, 2025
(The Guardian) – US Congress is debating permanent daylight saving – but new research shows keeping clocks on standard time is least stressful on the body Researchers at Stanford University found that keeping our clocks on standard time year round, … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Futurism) – “We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises as AI chatbot interactions begin producing increasingly documented cases of suicide, self-harm, and severe psychological deterioration that were previously unprecedented in the internet age,” … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Los Angeles Times via Yahoo!) – A Southern California man with cerebral palsy used his iPhone to record his frustration as a delivery robot continuously swerved into the path of his mobility scooter before suddenly braking, resulting in a bot-on-chair … Read More
September 26, 2025
(The New Yorker) – Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects. (Read More)
September 26, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A growing contingent of doctors and policymakers say they have grown wary of federal health guidance since longtime vaccine skeptic Kennedy became Health and Human Services Secretary—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe outside the … Read More
September 26, 2025
(The Verge) – Signatories included an OpenAI co-founder, Anthropic’s CISO, and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton. On Monday, more than 200 former heads of state, diplomats, Nobel laureates, AI leaders, scientists, and others all agreed on one thing: There should be … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Longreads) – As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time. Last May, I found myself in the basement of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and … Read More
September 25, 2025
(USA Today via MSN) – A study is asking the Centers for Disease Control to declare Chagas disease, also known as “kissing bug” disease, an endemic after cases have been reported in eight different states. Since 2013, “kissing bugs” have … Read More
September 25, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Simple approach covers a key prevention gap in young children Toting around young children in baby wraps treated with insect repellent cut their malaria infection rate by two-thirds, according to findings of a randomized trial in Uganda. … Read More
September 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began. A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. … Read More
September 25, 2025
(Nature) – Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more. At the time, Branyas was living in the small town of Olot, in the Catalonia region of Spain, … Read More
September 25, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by MIT Technology Review, raise questions about how reliable AI tools are at evaluating scientific … Read More
September 25, 2025
(IEEE Spectrum) – The Turing Test is defunct. We need a new IQ test for AI Buzzwords in the field of artificial intelligence can be technical: perceptron, convolution, transformer. These refer to specific computing approaches. A recent term sounds more … Read More
