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OpenAI updates ChatGPT as it faces a lawsuit over a teen’s suicide
(Quartz) – OpenAI says it’s updating ChatGPT to better recognize when a user is in serious emotional or mental distress as it gets hit...
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Type 2 diabetes prevented with adherence to Mediterranean diet and exercise, study finds
(CNN) – A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55...
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Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back.
(Washington Post via MSN) – As camera-enabled glasses become more common in public places, young people are pushing back on what many see as...
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AI robots are helping South Korea’s seniors feel less alone
(Rest of World) – A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors...
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A New Edition of Public Health Ethics is Now Available
Public Health Ethics (vol. 18, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles Include:
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Two Texas Moms Were Forced to Wait for Urgent Care After Pregnancy Loss. They Died.
(Longreads) – “Standard of Fear,” a project led by Lauren Caruba and Marin Wolf of The Dallas Morning News, details the consequences of recent...
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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
(Wired) – Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn...
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Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?
(Nature) – RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research. There are...
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We’ve seen ‘designer babies’ before. The pagans optimized their offspring
(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is...
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The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame
(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager...
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My Year of Living Blurrily
(New York Times) – The painting beckoned me from across the room. In a bright, high-ceilinged gallery of the Courtauld, a small museum in...
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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers
(Wired) – New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated. Economists at Stanford University have...
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Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children
(404 Media) – Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will...
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Breakthrough new treatment could REVERSE Down syndrome
(Daily Mail) – Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells....
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What It Really Means to Choose Life
(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a...