August 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The painting beckoned me from across the room. In a bright, high-ceilinged gallery of the Courtauld, a small museum in London known for its collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, I moved past van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Wired) – New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated. Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the … Read More
August 26, 2025
(404 Media) – Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products … Read More
August 25, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells. Down syndrome – which occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of … Read More
August 25, 2025
(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a sense of contempt — why should we care for this hopeless cause? — and when our … Read More
August 25, 2025
(New York Times) – Marketed as conversational agents, chatbots are becoming de facto digital therapists for many teens, for whom this technology now feels native. This raises the stakes for ensuring these tools are safe and governed by enforceable standards. … Read More
August 25, 2025
(Science News) – Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, researchers report August 25 in Nature … Read More
August 25, 2025
(Wired) – Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. Diffusion models, the backbone of image-generating tools such as … Read More
August 25, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Silicon Valley is putting more than $100 million into a network of political-action committees and organizations to advocate against strict artificial-intelligence regulations, a signal that tech executives will be active in next year’s midterm elections. Venture-capital … Read More
August 25, 2025
(NBC News) – Eli Lilly’s stock is still recovering after the drugmaker released trial data earlier this month on its closely watched obesity pill that underwhelmed Wall Street. In a key late-stage trial, Eli Lilly’s pill, orforglipron, caused less weight … Read More
August 25, 2025
Research Ethics (vol. 21, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 22, 2025
(Discover) – Everyone’s voice is unique. Because of our individual nuances in anatomy, it’s as distinguishable as a fingerprint. While those differences help us tell one another apart, our voices might also hold clues to detecting laryngeal cancer (cancer of … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More
August 22, 2025
(STAT News) – I’ve seen it as a psychologist — and experienced it as a patient Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Nature) – Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation. A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body … Read More
August 22, 2025
(The Guardian) – Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. (Read More)
August 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Official designation by leading food-security experts adds to pressure on Israel International food-security experts said a famine has taken hold around Gaza City, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Wired) – Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor. Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch … Read More
August 22, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Wired) – Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) … Read More
August 22, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM. Freshly severed from employment (again), my idle hands and idle mind got up to tricks. Rearranging closets. Shredding. Buying plants that look cool but die. Extreme … Read More
August 22, 2025
(After Babel) – Last week, Reuters published an investigation that cited internal Meta documents and sources that should anger anyone who cares about children’s safety online. The documents explain that the social media giant’s AI policies explicitly permit chatbots to … Read More
August 22, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 21, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As more states adopt laws allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, some groups representing disabled people are suing to stop them. In June, New York became the 11th state to pass legislation allowing terminally ill … Read More
