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🧂 Man Suffers Psychosis After AI-Prescribed "Diet"

🧂 Man Suffers Psychosis After AI-Prescribed "Diet" A 60-year-old American man was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward after taking sodium bromide for three months following t…

🤖 "Underground" Robot Combats Debut in San Francisco

🤖 "Underground" Robot Combats Debut in San Francisco An arena was set up in the basement of a 16‑story Frontier Tower. The whole vibe was pure cyberpunk: neon lights, techno beat…

🧠 Scientists Have Grown an Analogue of an Entire Human Brain

🧠 Scientists Have Grown an Analogue of an Entire Human Brain Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have created the world's first organoid that mimics an entire human brain, com…

🦠 Scientists Decoded Genome of Early "Spanish Flu"

🦠 Scientists Decoded Genome of Early "Spanish Flu" An international team from the Universities of Basel and Zurich assembled the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus (H1N1) f…

🔒 Private AI Chatbots: A Safer Shortlist

🔒 Private AI Chatbots: A Safer Shortlist After tens of thousands of private AI chats briefly showed up in search results, one thing is clear: everything online leaves a trail. He…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 32, 2025.

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 32, 2025. ▎GPT-5 IS HERE 👐 OpenAI has released GPT-5. Best model at coding and science, fewer h…

🧠 Will AI Outsmart Human Intelligence? Lecture by Geoffrey Hinton

🧠 Will AI Outsmart Human Intelligence? Lecture by Geoffrey Hinton The "godfather of AI" and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, Geoffrey Hinton, explained in a new lecture…

♟ o3 Trounces Grok 4 in Chess Tournament Final

♟ o3 Trounces Grok 4 in Chess Tournament Final OpenAI's o3 model swept Grok 4 four games to none in the final of the first chess tournament between large language models, held Aug…

🌿 VR As a Pain Reliever

🌿 VR As a Pain Reliever Virtual reality nature scenes could help with chronic pain, according to researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK. In the experiment, 30 healthy…

👐 GPT-5 Is Here: The Most Powerful AI System In The World

👐 GPT-5 Is Here: The Most Powerful AI System In The World Yes, GPT-5 isn't a single model but an "AI system." A user's request in ChatGPT is analyzed by an algorithm that selects…

😇 Ozzy Osbourne Selfies from Heaven: AI Tribute to the "Prince of Darkness" Sparks Controversy

😇 Ozzy Osbourne Selfies from Heaven: AI Tribute to the "Prince of Darkness" Sparks Controversy British rock legend Rod Stewart used AI-generated footage to pay tribute to Black S…

🖥 China Secretly Building a Giant "Data Center City"

🖥 China Secretly Building a Giant "Data Center City" China is constructing a massive complex of data centers in Xinjiang, aiming to position itself as a global leader in the AI r…

🇸🇪 Sweden's Prime Minister Consults ChatGPT When Making Decisions

🇸🇪 Sweden's Prime Minister Consults ChatGPT When Making Decisions Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson recently shared in an interview that he regularly consults AI for guidan…

❎ Grok's Video Generator: Fast, but Still Raw

❎ Grok's Video Generator: Fast, but Still Raw Grok Imagine is a new AI video generator from xAI, now integrated into the X app—but only for paying users. Elon Musk calls it the "…

👐 OpenAI Releases Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

👐 OpenAI Releases Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 The larger model, with 120 billion parameters, performs between o3 and o4-mini levels and is designed for launch in dat…

🔚 Three "Universal" Prompting Techniques No Longer Work

🔚 Three "Universal" Prompting Techniques No Longer Work Researchers at Wharton AI Labs put three popular prompt-writing tips to the test. They evaluated each method using graduat…

🩸American Scientists Have Created Artificial Blood

🩸American Scientists Have Created Artificial Blood  A team of doctors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and medtech startup KaloCyte has developed synthetic bloo…

🦾 Korean Scientists Have Created a Robotic Arm with a "Nervous System"

🦾 Korean Scientists Have Created a Robotic Arm with a "Nervous System" Korean scientists have developed a technology that mimics the sensory system of living organisms. The nerv…

📱 The 40 Jobs Most Influenced by AI, According to Microsoft

📱 The 40 Jobs Most Influenced by AI, According to Microsoft Researchers at Microsoft analyzed more than 200,000 users' dialogues with the Bing Copilot chatbot to understand how p…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 31, 2025.

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 31, 2025. ▎NEW RELEASES ♊️ Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: A new, state-of-the-art language model. 🔎 Go…

🌱 Potatoes Evolved from a Tomato Ancestor

🌱 Potatoes Evolved from a Tomato Ancestor Scientists have just solved a mystery that has puzzled biologists for years: how the potato developed tubers. Above ground, today's pot…

🎵 AI Music Evokes Stronger Emotions Than Human-Composed Music

🎵 AI Music Evokes Stronger Emotions Than Human-Composed Music Researchers discovered that AI-generated music elicits stronger emotional responses in people. The 88 participants w…

🖥 How His Father's Death Led Dario Amodei to AI

🖥 How His Father's Death Led Dario Amodei to AI Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a recent interview that the death of his father was what first led him to study artificial inte…

🔎 Google Opal: A New Vibe-Coding Tool

🔎 Google Opal: A New Vibe-Coding Tool Opal is an AI-powered tool that lets you create and instantly publish mini-apps through a simple, code-free interface. The user simply desc…

💊 AI Predicts Future Illnesses from Your Medical Records

💊 AI Predicts Future Illnesses from Your Medical Records Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute have trained an AI to predict the risk of developing diabetes up to two years i…

📱 YouTube Will Guess User's Age Using AI

📱 YouTube Will Guess User's Age Using AI YouTube will start using machine learning to estimate a user's age and set appropriate restrictions. Testing will begin in the U.S. in th…

👁‍🗨 AI Falls for the Same Manipulation Tactics as Humans

👁‍🗨 AI Falls for the Same Manipulation Tactics as Humans In the 1980s, psychologist Robert Cialdini identified six key principles of persuasion: authority, commitment, scarcity,…

💃 AI Models Appear in Vogue for the First Time

💃 AI Models Appear in Vogue for the First Time Vogue Australia's August issue featured a Guess ad with an AI-generated model. The campaign also appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Elle,…

🤖 Unitree R1: The World's First "Budget-Friendly" Android

🤖 Unitree R1: The World's First "Budget-Friendly" Android The Chinese company Unitree Robotics has launched the humanoid robot designed to assist humans with everyday tasks and c…

🔍 AI Helps Identify Missing Fishermen

🔍 AI Helps Identify Missing Fishermen One of the landmarks of the Dutch town of Urk is a memorial to fishermen who perished in the North Sea. The list is extensive, with over 300…