AI Updates

Fatty liver disease affects roughly 30 percent of adults worldwide, yet it often develops without obvious symptoms. By the time advanced scarring is discovered, treatment becomes more difficult and risks can include liver failure, cardiovascular disease a

AI agents connected to enterprise systems may be paying to consider tools they cannot use. Okta calls this prompt overhead the "tool tax": every model request can include names, descriptions, parameters and schemas for all tools exposed through a Model Co

Google has tested a research version of its medical AI system, AMIE, in live video consultations with professional patient actors. Independent clinical evaluators rated the system on par with primary care physicians across several measures, including hist

A startup party became a case study in workplace power after LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz posted that anyone who got a company tattoo would receive an immediate job interview. Seven attendees were tattooed following a Y Combinator Startup School event

An AI-operated newsroom beat conventional reporters by more than three hours on a cybersecurity story from Black Hat, according to WIRED. RuntimeWire founder Ryan Merket saw an executive's post on X, fed a livestream transcript into his system and publish

The internet still produces sensations that appear to be everywhere. Yet the numbers beneath a viral post can now say less about shared culture than they once did. In an interview with WIRED, cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot argues that online attention has

A San Francisco congressional candidate tried to turn generative AI into an interactive political attack ad. Within days, the chatbot was facing accusations of racism, sexism and political impersonation, forcing the campaign to take it offline. An attack

A set of now-patched Zoom vulnerabilities shows how quickly public AI tools can turn an obscure software feature into a working attack. Researchers at the digital defense company A Security say they needed fewer than 20 prompts to identify flaws in Zoom's

Hidden reasoning is supposed to remain hidden when people access frontier AI models through an API. New research shows that an architectural shortcut can make some of those internal traces visible: replay the encrypted material through a smaller, less str

A large genetic and brain-tissue analysis uses AI to connect hundreds of genes associated with schizophrenia, widening the map for future research.