How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?
On March 27, the results of the first clinical trial for a generative AI therapy bot were published, and they showed that people in the trial who had depression or...
Amazon makes shock last-minute bid to buy TikTok: report
Amazon jumped into the TikTok sweepstakes with a surprise last-minute play to buy the video-sharing app ahead of Saturday’s deadline for Chinese parent ByteDance to sell it or face a...
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to...
Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Pattie Maes, the Germeshausen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and head of the Fluid Interfaces research group within the MIT Media Lab, has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime...
The first trial of generative AI therapy shows it might help with depression
The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating...
Reddit, X users report outages, according to Downdetector
Users of Reddit and X encountered widespread service disruptions Thursday afternoon — with both platforms experiencing intermittent outages, according to data from Downdetector. Reports of issues began spiking around 3...
I Opted Out of AI Training. Does This Reduce My Future Influence?
If we all start opting out of our posts being used for training models, doesn’t that reduce the influence of our unique voice and perspectives on those models? Increasingly, the...
Making higher education more accessible to students in Pakistan
Taking out a loan to attend college is an investment in your future. But unlike in the United States, students in Pakistan don’t have easy access to college loans. Instead,...
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager, he had pivoted to AI...
Trump-backed deal to save TikTok moves closer to finish line ahead of ban on April 5: sources
The long-awaited deal to save TikTok from being banned from US app stores is ticking down to completion, On The Money has learned. An investor group working with Vice President...
How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia
“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable,...
MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
Around 11 billion tons of goods, or about 1.5 tons per person worldwide, are transported by sea each year, representing about 90 percent of global trade by volume. Internationally, the...
Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the...
ChatGPT won’t generate images of ‘sexy women’ but will make images of ‘sexy men’ due to apparent ‘bug’
Rules for she but not for he. The new ChatGPT image generator will manufacture images of “sexy men” but won’t make images of “sexy women” due to an apparent software...
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for...
