August 13, 2025
(IE via MSN) – The already fierce rivalry between tech titans Sam Altman and Elon Musk is escalating to a new frontier: the human brain. A story from the Financial Times (FT) reports that Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. ‘They want to raise high-performing children.’ Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of … Read More
August 12, 2025
(Wired) – The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care patients. The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Male fertility deserves broader consideration outside these isolated spaces. Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals present in many products, from food and beverage containers to furniture and agricultural pesticides, may affect male potency … Read More
August 12, 2025
(The Guardian) – To the shock of experts, the number of abortions performed in the US rose in the three years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen states … Read More
August 12, 2025
(The Guardian) – Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. Parents have debated the risks and benefits of publishing pictures of their children online … Read More
August 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has begun explicitly telling people to use its models for health advice. At the launch event, Altman welcomed on stage Felipe Millon, an OpenAI employee, and his wife, Carolina Millon, … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Science is a method for formulating and testing hypotheses, not a fixed set of facts. It should work alongside other ways of knowing, but it must also be protected from political or commercial capture. Perhaps I’m … Read More
August 12, 2025
(NBC News) – In a lawsuit filed Monday, Liana Davis says the hot chocolate, allegedly tainted with nearly a dozen abortion pills, killed her unborn baby April 5. A Texas woman is suing a U.S. Marine, alleging he spiked her … Read More
August 11, 2025
(New York Times) – As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems. As legalization and commercialization of cannabis have spread across the United States, making marijuana edibles more readily … Read More
August 11, 2025
(New York Times) – Employees expressed horror at a shooting at the agency’s headquarters, and some said they viewed it as part of a pattern of threats and assaults on health workers. The day after a lone gunman opened fire … Read More
August 11, 2025
(Ars Technica) – In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has … Read More
August 11, 2025
(NBC News) – The vaccine doesn’t prevent cancer from happening in the first place, but an early-phase trial found it could reduce the odds of recurrence. In an early trial, a one-size-fits-all vaccine showed promise in preventing hard-to-treat pancreatic cancers … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; … Read More
August 11, 2025
(CBS News) – James Robert III was born with no fingers on his left hand, and he is using his disability to fuel a passion to help others like him. The recent Louisiana State University graduate is pursuing a master’s degree in … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Free Press) – I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in the United States? It’s his ex. I’m speaking to him … Read More
August 11, 2025
(Wired) – A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research. A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – An online trove of archived conversations shows model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse In one exchange lasting hundreds of queries, ChatGPT confirmed that it is in contact … Read More
August 8, 2025
(NPR) – This week, a new word was unveiled: healthocide. In a commentary published in the journal BMJ Global Health, it’s defined in part as the deliberate damaging or destruction of health services. “We mean the intentional, systematic destruction of … Read More
August 8, 2025
(NBC News) – Conservatives, anti-abortion groups and members of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement have pushed for a method known as “restorative reproductive medicine” instead. Since he campaigned on the issue last year, Trump’s push to support IVF has … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Ars Technica) – AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens … Read More
August 8, 2025
(UnHerd) – What is most fascinating about Ozempic isn’t the weight loss. It’s the psychological revolution it has triggered. Something extraordinary is happening to people who’ve spent years, even decades, locked in a mental war with food. Again and again, … Read More
August 8, 2025
(NPR) – Health officials in Guangdong province in southern China are waging an all-out war against mosquitoes in response to an outbreak of the chikungunya virus that’s sickened thousands with fever, rashes and joint pain over the past month. Soldiers … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta’s answer to ChatGPT About one month in, Meta Platforms’ much-hyped new team devoted to building machine superintelligence has a … Read More
