August 2026

Some patients in the UK are skipping going to the doctor because their office’s AI “receptionist” can’t understand what they’re […]

Elon Musk spent months crusading against Christopher Nolan’s “woke” adaptation of “The Odyssey” before it came out, anticipating that it

Pause for a moment and listen. What do you hear? Chances are, somewhere in the background, is the ever-present hum

Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved

New research gives us a grim portrait of how rampant AI usage is affecting young students’ academic performance and learning.

I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that pottered around, ate well, shone bright, and went

AI is obviously ruining everything on the internet, but so are AI scrapers. They vacuum up everyone’s content up without

Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as

It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even