Synchron might be ahead, but it’s still in an exploratory phase. A “pivotal” study, the kind used to persuade regulators to allow sales of a specific version of the device, has yet... Read more »

The researchers, a team of psychiatrists and psychologists at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine, acknowledge these questions in their work. But they also say that the right selection of training data—which... Read more »

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meet the online activists fighting back against ICE raidsTheir networks are warning migrants about ICE officer hotspots in... Read more »

Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shared the vision, noting that fewer than half of people with a mental disorder receive therapy, and those who do might get only 45 minutes per week.... Read more »

Bankruptcy proceedings involving personal data don’t have to end badly. In 2000, the Federal Trade Commission settled with the bankrupt retailer ToySmart to ensure that its customer data could not be sold... Read more »

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A judge has ordered Trump’s officials to preserve their secret Signal chat While officials are required by law to... Read more »

The very existence of synthetic embryos is throwing into question our understanding of what a human embryo even is. “Is it the thing that is only generated from the fusion of a... Read more »

But Signal uses other techniques to keep your messages private and safe as well. For example, it goes to great lengths to make it hard for the Signal server itself to know... Read more »

Odd behavior So: What did they find? Anthropic looked at 10 different behaviors in Claude. One involved the use of different languages. Does Claude have a part that speaks French and another... Read more »