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Harvard Gazette: “Medical ethicist details need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines. AI is moving quickly into healthcare, bringing potential benefits but also possible pitfalls such as bias that drives unequal care and burnout of physicians and other healthcare workers. It remains undecided how it should be regulated …
“A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy, Tina Nguyen [no paywall – The Verge: Last week was a grim reminder that no matter what sort of horror is being perpetrated or how many people end up dead, the Trump administration’s knee-jerk response is to shitpost through it. The White House’s response on …
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services: Fast Growing Technologies Look For Circular Economy – “The big 2025 technology story was a recurrence of what we saw in 2024 and 2023: artificial intelligence, and all the ways AI is changing (and will surely transform) the way the world does business and the structure of society. So you would think IFI …
Data is Beautiful – JoonSimJoon: “When researchers write “recent studies show…” – how recent is recent, really? I scraped 749,853 references from 19,108 papers across 200 academic fields using OpenAlex data to find out. TL;DR: Average “recent” = about 5 years Virology/Pandemic research: 2 years (half their citations are from the last 2 years!) Philosophy/History: …
The Atlantic – And that could change everything for the tech industry. Alex Reisner: “On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok—have stored large portions of some of the books they’ve been trained …
The Pragmatic Engineer: “No longer a hypothetical question, this is a mega-trend set to hit the tech industry, Gergely Orosz, Jan 06, 2026. “This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete …
The Verge – no paywall: “Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as “really …
Washington Post via MSN no paywall: “Imagine you are redesigning your living space. You could hire an interior designer for a few thousand dollars. Or you could ask an artificial intelligence tool such as ChatGPT to do it instead. But can AI actually do the work? See what happened in a study that compared how well …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 10, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
Wired – no paywall: “Google is putting even more generative AI tools into Gmail as part of its goal to further personalize user inboxes and streamline searches. On Thursday, the company announced a new “AI Inbox” tab, currently in a beta testing phase, that reads every message in a user’s Gmail and suggests a list …
Washington Post [via MSN no paywall]: “…NWS said AI is not commonly used for public-facing content, nor is its use prohibited. The agency said it is exploring ways to employ AI to inform the public and acknowledged mistakes have been made. “Recently, a local office used AI to create a base map to display forecast …
NextGov: “The Government Publishing Office has been piloting and deploying artificial intelligence capabilities to simplify agency tasks, including developing internal AI-generated podcasts to help its personnel digest information in a more engaging manner. GPO’s top IT official said the agency’s early adoption of AI has allowed it to cautiously expand uses of the technology across …
