TL;DR: Training chatbots to sound warmer makes them significantly less accurate, whilst journalism schools lack a consistent AI strategy as scattershot policies confuse students. Meanwhile, Google, Meta, and Amazon have seized two-thirds of the £46bn UK advertising market, and AI is using rapid facial ageing to predict cancer survival chances. Plus…

TL;DR: Algorithms and AI are turning human creativity into a homogenised crowd, whilst shape-shifting liquid robots from science fiction are officially a reality. Meanwhile, relocating Venice inland may be the only way to survive rising seas, billion-dollar prediction markets pose a real threat to global democracies, and one in four Americans now c…

TL;DR: Subtle signals like facial expressions are key, but new research suggests smiley faces could be quietly ruining your professional reputation. Meanwhile, a deadly civil war tears the world’s largest wild chimpanzee group apart, tracking reveals how war and energy policies dimmed the night lights of Europe, and an alarming survey shows half of…

TL;DR: The US government has officially staked its claim to “aliens.gov,” igniting internet discussions, whilst obsessing over your smartwatch data is actively destroying your ability to rest. Meanwhile, shrinking workforces threaten the global economy, but AI can trigger huge growth, and corporate leaders are told that the return-to-of…

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 po…

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. Resear…