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Corporate bulls#!t jargon ruins decisions
TL;DR: Employees seduced by corporate jargon are terrible at making decisions, whilst a mind-reading milestone lets scientists watch movies inside a mouse’s brain. Meanwhile, the world’s ship captains are terrified of autonomous vessels, chatbots are forcing humanity to conform, and your AI writing assistant is secretly changing your political opinions. Plus: A medical taboo prompts
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Flood of ‘AI slop’ is ruining social media
TL;DR: Wading through a sea of low-quality, AI-generated content on platforms like YouTube and Facebook is becoming an increasingly frustrating experience, as the endless flood of “AI slop” ruins social media for everyone. Meanwhile, humans are surprisingly better than AI at spotting deepfake videos but fail entirely with photos. Researchers warn that AI cancer tools
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Is AI job apocalypse just history repeating?
TL;DR: From silent film stars to bank tellers, professions threatened by new technology have faced similar fears, suggesting the AI job apocalypse might just be history repeating itself. Meanwhile, failing public sector AI projects refuse to die despite broken promises, Spain emerges as a surprise world leader in AI and journalism research, and online reviews
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Is AI expertise worth more than a master’s?
TL;DR: Expertise in artificial intelligence is now often worth more than a master’s degree as employers shift to skill-based hiring, whilst science confirms that love really is blind as the brain shuts down critical judgment. Meanwhile, wild parrots are found to use complex grammar in territorial war songs, “smart underwear” is created to track flatulence,
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Babes to the rhythm: Newborns dig beats
TL;DR: Humans enter the world with an innate ability to predict rhythmic patterns but are essentially “deaf” to melody, according to new research. Meanwhile, a simple picture test helps AI diagnose addiction with over 80 per cent accuracy; tiny “bubble bots” powered by body waste are hunting down tumours; and scientists have used sound to
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Near-death visions still baffle science
TL;DR: Science still cannot explain why the dying report leaving their bodies despite major new research efforts, whilst a fully autonomous AI “digital clinical team” has been built to spot early signs of dementia in patient notes. Meanwhile, robots are learning to “feel” like humans to handle raw eggs, “super agers” win the genetic lottery
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Brain ‘brake’ stops us from making a start
TL;DR: Scientists have discovered a physical “brake” in the brain that stops us from starting stressful tasks, whilst gifted dogs are learning to understand spelt-out words to eavesdrop on their owners, and swearing aloud can actually make you physically stronger. Meanwhile, a new AI model predicts 100 diseases from a single night’s sleep, teenagers lose
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AI consciousness is ‘toxic’ and unprovable
TL;DR: Claims of AI consciousness are “existentially toxic” and unprovable, whilst the world’s smallest programmable robots launch for just a penny, and US politicians inhabit “parallel universes” on X after mass shootings. Meanwhile, AI successfully predicts unknown brain neurons that scientists then find in real mice, a global “social media cocktail” helps neurosurgeons solve cases
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Harari warns world of ‘alien’ AI oligarchs
TL;DR: Yuval Noah Harari warns that AI has evolved into an “alien intelligence” ready to exploit US law to become a new class of oligarch, whilst the Amazon rainforest enters a deadly new “hypertropical” climate state unseen for millions of years. Meanwhile, a 10-month stare-down with a dead star reveals a “cosmic twinkle” that could
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Rhyming ‘master key’ that breaks AI safety
TL;DR: Researchers discover that “adversarial poetry” acts as a universal master key to defeat AI safety filters, while Warner Music Group strikes a landmark partnership with AI music generator Suno, and aggressive dogs are found to mellow out significantly after taking cannabis-derived supplements. Meanwhile, a venture capitalist with close ties to Sam Altman is targeted
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