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Reality check: Why we can’t trust anything online — and no one knows how to fix it
A zero digital footprint used to signal authenticity. Now, it can signal the opposite. The absence of a trail no ...
Name Tag: Meta’s spooky AI facial recognition smart glasses sets off privacy alarm bells
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans ...
The Trump-trolling AI meme creator that’s taken social media by storm
Minutes after President Donald Trump announced that he would not wipe out “a whole civilization” ..., a team of self-described young ...
AI with human feelings? Anthropic’s Claude edges closer
... A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, joy, and fear, ...
Palantir: The company in the middle of the first AI war
Generative AI has helped fuel Palantir’s rise, supercharging the hands-on support the company provides to its customers. Early in its ...
Circular research: Google’s chatbot programmed to steer users to Google, not the best sources
Google seems to have a Google addiction. If you click on a hyperlink in Google’s chatbot-style search tool, AI Mode, you are likely to ...
Skipping the shingles vaccine can be deadly: Infection may also speed biological aging
In recent years, increasing numbers of studies have shown that the shingles vaccine appears to be capable of protecting the ...
As teen suicides pile up, AI companies squirm to avert accountability
It was Amaurie’s younger sister who discovered the body. She was also the one who was looking through her brother’s ...
Iranians have long fought disinformation by using the internet. Access is now at 1%
[A]s the US and Israel’s war on Iran intensifies, the conflict is adding a new dimension to what would otherwise be ...
Google and Meta on trial in social media addiction case
Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But ...
RFK Jr.’s autism panel packed with bizarre collection of cranks and conspiracists
U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filled an autism committee with friends, associates, and former colleagues who believe that autism ...
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming: AI is overwhelmed with Russian and anti-Western disinformation
A new paper, published in Science on [January 22, 2026] predicts an imminent step-change in how disinformation campaigns will be ...
AI is pushing us towards a carbon emissions climate disaster—but there is a remedy
As the world keeps warming and electricity bills take center stage in national politics, the data center boom will drive up US carbon emissions ...
Can AI’s enormous power demands resuscitate the low-carbon nuclear power industry?
Giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have inked numerous deals in recent years with nuclear companies to power data centers; ...
New U.S. cancer policy head falsely believes COVID vaccines ‘turbocharge’ cancer and horse dewormer ivermectin is a miracle drug
An epidemiologist who has speculated about whether there is a connection between Covid-19 vaccines and “turbo cancer” in young people, ...
‘We will witness a radically redrawn coast line’: Sea levels poised to run 15 feet or more over the rest of this century
In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached ...
Battle over yttrium: China’s rare earth metal advantages will only get worse
The alarm hasn't yet reached the general public, but tension is beginning to build in the corridors of the aerospace industry, ...
Here is the origin of the term AGI—Artificial General Intelligence
[Artificial] general intelligence, or AGI, [is] the stage at which computers can match or surpass human intelligence. ... Prognosticators say ...
OpenAI’s ‘sovereign AI’ goes head-to-head with China’s
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” ...
How the brain gets thirsty before the body even notices
To understand thirst in mammals, think of it less as the body stating a fact to the brain—“I need water”—and ...
A therapeutic psychedelic without the hallucinatory trip? With the help of AI, it’s in the works
While there's growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases where traditional treatments have failed, they ...
What does decision-making in the brain look like?
Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice ...
What legal rights should non-conscious AI’s have?
In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but growing field called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models ...
Can AI speed up the grindingly slow process of drug development?
Sooner or later, in some form, AI tools will be standard in drug discovery, suspects Derek Lowe, the medicinal chemist and ...
Nuclear reactor on the moon? NASA’S race to transform space travel
NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a new directive from the agency’s interim ...
Viewpoint: Truth Social rolled out an AI Chatbot that relies mostly on rightwing misinformation purveyors
When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty ...
Podcast: The race to build a viable brain-computer implant and why they are revolutionary
Brain-computer interfaces might have inspired works of science fiction, but the technology behind them is real and quickly developing. Companies ...
Nuclear concerns: What are the dangers as AI gets baked into our nuclear arsenal
The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them ...
