Mark Cuban Says AI Can Expose Hidden Healthcare Contract Costs
If you’re an employer trying to reduce healthcare costs, Mark Cuban says your first port of call should…
Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first…
Why You Should Be Nice to Chatbots
If you’re being unusually polite to your chatbot just in case of a robot uprising, there may…
AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job
If you feel like your previous employer didn’t properly compensate you, there might be a way to cash…
Researchers Say AI Is Homogenizing Human Expression and Thought
There has been a creeping sense that, since large language models like ChatGPT have become publicly accessible and…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Is Coming in 2026
OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing…
Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”
As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah,…
Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It
It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s…
Top AI medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann leave Germany for China
Top German medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann have joined Fudan University in Shanghai as full-time faculty…
How an artificial intelligence may understand human consciousness
An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Naven) This column was composed in part…