December 7, 2023
(Wired) – Digital health company Celero Systems is developing an electronic pill that can measure heart rate, breathing rate, and core temperature—from inside the human stomach. As a first step, the company envisions people with ongoing conditions using the digital … Read More
December 7, 2023
(Vice News) – Microplastics have recently entered the public consciousness for finding their way into our bodies and to some of the most remote places on Earth. But now, a much smaller, potentially much more nefarious, and less understood threat … Read More
December 7, 2023
(MIT Technology Review) – Hype about Gemini, Google DeepMind’s long-rumored response to OpenAI’s GPT-4, has been building for months. Today the company finally revealed what it has been working on in secret all this time. Was the hype justified? Yes—and … Read More
December 7, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Helen Toner was a relatively unknown 31-year-old academic from Australia—until she became one of the four board members who fired Sam Altman from the artificial-intelligence company he co-founded. Thrust into the spotlight during the ouster and … Read More
December 6, 2023
(The Verge) – Gemini is more than a single AI model. There’s a lighter version called Gemini Nano that is meant to be run natively and offline on Android devices. There’s a beefier version called Gemini Pro that will soon … Read More
December 6, 2023
(Wired) – More details are emerging about a data breach the genetic testing company 23andMe first reported in October. But as the company shares more information, the situation is becoming even murkier and creating greater uncertainty for users attempting to … Read More
December 6, 2023
(The Free Press) – I’ve spent years trying to understand the mental health crisis among teenage girls. But both sexes are suffering. Since 2015, I have been trying to solve a mystery: all of a sudden, around 2013, rates of … Read More
December 5, 2023
(Axios) – A factory planning to pump out 10,000 two-legged robots a year is taking shape in Salem, Oregon — the better to help Amazon and other giant companies with dangerous hauling, lifting and moving. Why it matters: Agility Robotics … Read More
December 5, 2023
(Associated Press) – Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment as negotiators try to hammer out the final details this week — talks complicated by the sudden rise of generative AI that … Read More
December 5, 2023
(Politico) – Google wants to make your cell phone a “doctor in your pocket” that relies on the company’s artificial intelligence. But first, the tech giant will need to convince skeptical lawmakers and the Biden administration that its health AI … Read More
December 5, 2023
(The Verge) – DNA data storage might sound like a far-off solution. But a startup called Biomemory is bringing it a little closer to reality with the release of new DNA cards that anyone can purchase — if you have … Read More
December 5, 2023
(The Verge) – 23andMe confirmed that a recent breach leaked data belonging to 6.9 million users. In an emailed statement to The Verge, company spokesperson Andy Kill says the breach affected around 5.5 million users who had DNA Relatives enabled, … Read More
December 4, 2023
(Becker Friedman Institute Research Brief) – Large shares of consumers use Instagram and TikTok out of a fear of missing out rather than genuine interest and, as a result, are worse off than if the platforms did not exist in … Read More
December 1, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Meta Platforms has spent months trying to fix child-safety problems on Instagram and Facebook, but it is struggling to prevent its own systems from enabling and even promoting a vast network of pedophile accounts. (Read More)
December 1, 2023
(MIT Technology Review) – Studies from 2019 and 2021 show that deepfakes—which are images convincingly manipulated by artificial intelligence, often by swapping in faces or voices from different pieces of media—are primarily used for pornography, overwhelmingly without the consent of … Read More
December 1, 2023
(Techradar) – You might watch Apple’s new short film, The Lost Voice, scratching your head, wondering what this enchanting visual tale of a little girl and a giant furry forest creature has to do with International Day of Persons with … Read More
November 30, 2023
(The Atlantic) – ChatGPT is one year old today, and it’s accomplished a lot in its first trip around the sun. The chatbot has upended or outright killed high-school and college essay writing and thoroughly scrambled the brains of academics, … Read More
November 30, 2023
(Vice) – A team of Google researchers have unveiled a novel attack on ChatGPT, showing that OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot will divulge personal information from real people. The underlying machine learning model that powers ChatGPT, like all so-called Large Language … Read More
November 30, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Johnson & Johnson is making one of the biggest bets in the healthcare industry on using data science and artificial intelligence to bolster its work. The 137-year-old pharmaceutical and medical-device company has hired 6,000 data scientists … Read More
November 29, 2023
(BBC) – Obviously, SGTC has no lethal element but it turns out, unsurprisingly, that people are prepared to be pretty ruthless and unpleasant in order to get their hands on $4.56m. So-called “alliances” are betrayed, Machiavellian scheming is rewarded, and … Read More
November 29, 2023
(Axios) – It’s passed medical licensing exams. It’s advanced how researchers develop new medicines and cut down on doctors’ hefty paperwork. And it’s nudged health care closer to a world where AI can offer diagnoses. Why it matters: One year … Read More
November 28, 2023
(Wired) – The lack of women in the AI field has been an issue for years; in 2018, WIRED estimated that only 12 percent of leading machine learning researchers were women. In 2020, the World Economic Forum found that only … Read More
November 28, 2023
(Bloomberg) – Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime program began with speedy shipping, then video streaming. The latest perk–discounted access to a virtual doctor–is being pitched as another win for customers: medical care delivered as seamlessly as tube socks and television shows. But … Read More
November 27, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Instagram’s Reels video service is designed to show users streams of short videos on topics the system decides will interest them, such as sports, fashion or humor. The Meta Platforms-owned social app does the same thing … Read More
November 27, 2023
(New York Times) – Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed … Read More
