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One of the largest health networks integrating AI into the medical space is facing allegations that its high-tech tools are ruining patient’s lives.In a new civil suit, former Mayo Clinic research director and AI compliance lead Traci Tamiko Eto alleges that the globally recognized hospital retaliated against her for blowing the whistle on its disastrous implementations of AI health tools.According to reporting by Minnesota Public Radio, Eto first joined the Mayo Clinic in 2023. After flagging potential privacy problems linked with the hospital’s Mayo Clinic Platform, an AI-integrated data system, Eto says her supervisor ignored her concerns. Instead, she says…

The Chinese space age is upon us.Beyond banner projects like the nation’s very own orbital space station and successful developments like reusable rocket boosters, the People’s Republic is pioneering a host of far-flung space initiatives that are cementing it as a power player in Earth’s orbit and beyond.Case in point: a Chinese spacecraft is now within mere miles of one of the Earth’s seven mysterious “quasi-moons,” the asteroid known as Kamo’oalewa — making it the first world power to approach the mysterious object. Launched in May of 2025, the Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 is now within 12.5 miles of the asteroid’s…

As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating less like a government watchdog and more as an industry partner. There’s fee recovery, for example, which effectively mandates the industry pay its own regulators’ salary, as well as the NRC’s habit of trusting voluntary leak reports from reactor operators, not to mention its history of hiding internal safety data to protect its reputation.As if those deficiencies weren’t bad enough, president Donald Trump is now stripping what’s left of the commission’s mandate down to the bone. Last week, the NRC proposed a…

It pays to buckle up.A passenger on Ryanair — because of course — had his insistence on keeping his seat belt fastened abruptly validated when the window next to him suddenly “detached” and sucked the bulk of his body out of the plane.Witnesses told Agence France-Presse that the man, a tourist from Serbia en route from Thessaloniki in Greece to Memmingen in Germany, had to be pulled in by the other passengers. Yes, several of them.“Most of us had fallen asleep, we had closed our eyes. There was a noise, like a tyre bursting,” one of them told Radio Thessaloniki,…

For many years now, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has run rampant on Meta’s platforms. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company has been accused of trying to underplay the severity of the issue and even purposefully dismantle child safety guidelines.And the situation is only getting worse. According to a shocking new BBC investigation, Instagram has been profiting off paid adverts that promote CSAM in India, a shocking revelation that highlights glaring holes in Meta’s efforts to get ahead of the problem.Earlier this year, Meta announced it was trying to reduce its reliance on third party human moderators by — you guessed it…

Being fired was only the first indignity that one freelance writer had to suffer. Even though Ben Touati was no longer working at ClickOut Media, new articles continued to appear under his name. An AI, it turned out, had taken over his byline, churning out stuff that was far below the standards he held for his real work.The situation felt like a “slap in the face,” Touati told Press Gazette. The articles started appearing just days after he was fired from ClickOut’s German operation.“The five articles were just like lazy, obviously slop, obviously there’s not a real person that is behind…

In October, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser dubbed Atlas, purportedly designed to help you “understand your world” and “achieve your goals” by putting ChatGPT front and center.A special “agent mode” was meant to book flights or buy groceries online on your behalf without you ever having to lift your finger.“The browser just changed,” OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT boasted at the time, calling it a major step in ChatGPT evolving into an entire AI operating system.But the cracks started to show almost immediately. There were glaring cybersecurity concerns, including a major vulnerability to prompt injection attacks. Its agent worked at a frustratingly…

Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures throughout the Pacific, would be particularly extreme.“The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is,” the World Metereological Organization cautioned at the time. “El Niño conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world.”Indeed, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that there was a rising chance of a “very strong” El Niño, triggering drastic temperature swings and more frequent extreme weather events, from severe storms to major flooding. Meanwhile, human-driven…

Director Christopher Nolan has a reputation for tortuous storytelling. His movies elliptically jump across time (“Memento”), or move backwards through it (“Tenet”), or toy with solipsism to have us question what’s real (“Inception”). We suspect his upcoming adaptation of the classic Greek epic “The Odyssey,” which hits theaters later this month, won’t be any different.But when the famed director decided to give his thoughts on AI, he didn’t prevaricate; instead, he straightforwardly explained why everyone — and especially the younger generations — absolutely loathe the tech.“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology…

According to boosters of AI, the tech was supposed to usher in an era of unprecedented productivity, leisure time for workers, and scientific discovery. But in reality, it keeps being linked to crimes so ghoulish that they’re almost unbelievable.In a particularly horrifying example, a man used Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to generate some 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter by feeding the AI a photo of her that was taken when she was 11 years old, a lawsuit alleges.The allegations, as reported by Ars Technica, were made in a proposed class action lawsuit against xAI — now owned by…