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August 26, 2025

Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.

(New York Times) – Marketed as conversational agents, chatbots are becoming de facto digital therapists for many teens, for whom this technology now feels native. This raises the stakes for ensuring these tools are safe and governed by enforceable standards. … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Scientists perform the first pig-to-human lung transplant

(Science News) – Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung tissue remained alive for nine days after the transplant despite early signs of inflammation, researchers report August 25 in Nature … Read More

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August 26, 2025

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

(Wired) – Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. Diffusion models, the backbone of image-generating tools such as … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections

(Wall Street Journal) – Silicon Valley is putting more than $100 million into a network of political-action committees and organizations to advocate against strict artificial-intelligence regulations, a signal that tech executives will be active in next year’s midterm elections. Venture-capital … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Eli Lilly’s obesity pill remains a viable rival to Novo’s oral Wegovy despite data that underwhelmed investors

(NBC News) – Eli Lilly’s stock is still recovering after the drugmaker released trial data earlier this month on its closely watched obesity pill that underwhelmed Wall Street. In a key late-stage trial, Eli Lilly’s pill, orforglipron, caused less weight … Read More

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August 25, 2025

A New Edition of Research Ethics is Now Available

Research Ethics (vol. 21, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:

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August 22, 2025

AI May Soon Detect Laryngeal Cancer Just by Listening to Your Voice

(Discover) – Everyone’s voice is unique. Because of our individual nuances in anatomy, it’s as distinguishable as a fingerprint. While those differences help us tell one another apart, our voices might also hold clues to detecting laryngeal cancer (cancer of … Read More

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August 22, 2025

GPT‑5 Pro is brilliant, but it’s still nowhere near real AGI, says one of the professors who coined the term

(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The trauma of illness can last long after the body has healed

(STAT News) – I’ve seen it as a psychologist — and experienced it as a patient Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

(Nature) – Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation. A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body … Read More

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August 22, 2025

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

(The Guardian) – Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. (Read More)

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August 22, 2025

Famine Is Now Gripping Parts of Gaza, Says Global Body

(Wall Street Journal) – Official designation by leading food-security experts adds to pressure on Israel International food-security experts said a famine has taken hold around Gaza City, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more … Read More

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August 22, 2025

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

(Wired) – Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor. Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch … Read More

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August 22, 2025

I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

(MIT Technology Review) – My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They … Read More

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August 22, 2025

Scientists Just Caught Human Embryo Implantation on Camera

(Wired) – Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) … Read More

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