#artificial-intelligence

A proposed class action against Sutter Health and MemorialCare is focusing attention on whether patients were clearly informed before an AI transcription system captured and processed confidential medical conversations.

A new survey finds fewer than half of parents believe schools are well prepared to respond if students become victims of nudification AI apps.

With nearly a billion users worldwide and heavy teen adoption in the United States, generative AI chatbots are increasingly being used for emotional support, raising new mental health concerns.

Researchers reported an AI approach inspired by the logic of Rubik’s Cube solving that can simplify particle physics equations, linking a familiar puzzle strategy to a difficult mathematical problem in high-energy theory

Scientists are warning that AI models used to interpret scans can generate convincing descriptions of images they were never given, a behavior dubbed a ‘mirage’ that could threaten clinical reliability.

As AI agents begin handling travel bookings, purchases, and negotiations autonomously, the quality of their underlying information and contextual awareness is emerging as the critical constraint on whether they can be trusted with real decisions.

Apple's new RubiCap training framework enables 7-billion-parameter models to outperform AI systems with 72 billion parameters on image captioning benchmarks, using reinforcement learning instead of costly manual annotation.

A new MIT Technology Review roundup captures a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer just a consumer technology story, but a flashpoint for war, protest, platform backlash, and agent culture.

Meta's chief executive is reportedly developing AI systems capable of performing executive decision-making functions traditionally reserved for human managers — raising questions about the future of corporate leadership, the concentration of AI capability in a handful of technology platforms, and what it means when the architect of an AI-powered company is also its human face.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has publicly expressed skepticism about AI's ability to replace human cognition, saying he uses AI tools infrequently and is often left disappointed by results that fail to match the genuine creativity of human intelligence.

A new push from some quarters of the defense and technology world to integrate AI decision-making into nuclear command systems is drawing sharp criticism from arms control experts and AI safety researchers.

Researchers warn that exposing young children to AI-generated content during critical developmental windows could have lasting consequences for cognitive and social development.

Amazon employees say AI tools are adding to their workload, and a new study confirms the pattern is widespread across industries adopting AI productivity tools.

A new study finds that large language models are narrowing the diversity of human written expression, raising concerns about cultural and intellectual homogenization.

Top AI executives including Palantir's Karp and OpenAI's Altman are openly discussing the possibility that the U.S. government could nationalize artificial intelligence companies.

SETI researchers say artificial intelligence tools could dramatically improve the chances of detecting extraterrestrial signals by sifting through vast radio data more effectively.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how mathematicians discover proofs and explore conjectures, triggering what experts call the biggest shift in the field's history.

Amazon has rolled out an AI-powered health assistant across its website and mobile app, offering medical guidance to hundreds of millions of customers.

Dozens of AI-powered intelligence dashboards tracking the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran have emerged, raising questions about the gamification of war and the reliability of open-source intelligence.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4, the latest and most powerful model in its GPT family, featuring enhanced reasoning capabilities and a new thinking mode for complex problem-solving tasks.