As Insurance Prices Rise, Families Puzzle Over Options
Lynn Arditi , 2026-01-16 10:00:00 New York-based performer Cynthia Freeman, 61, has been trying to figure out how to keep the Affordable Care Act health plan that she and her…
Veronica McNally dismissed from federal vaccine injury panel
Chelsea Cirruzzo , 2026-01-13 21:24:00 WASHINGTON — At least one member of a committee that advises the federal government on its vaccine injury compensation program has had her term prematurely…
Iran: Doctors come under attack as hospitals “overwhelmed”
Sally Howard , 2026-01-13 11:21:00 Doctors in Tehran are under attack, hospitals are “overwhelmed,” and human rights groups say that hundreds of people have been killed—with some reports saying the…
Female athlete health, well-being focus of updated report
, 2026-01-13 16:59:00 When active and athletic girls and women don't eat enough food to meet their body's energy needs, it can disrupt key systems in the body and lead…
New eye injection restores sight in untreatable hypotony
, 2026-01-12 19:53:00 A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at University…
Gravis Robotics raises $23M to scale autonomous earthmoving tech
Tamara Djurickovic , 2025-11-28 12:00:00 Swiss-based earthmoving autonomy platform Gravis Robotics has secured $23 million in fresh funding, co-led by IQ Capital and Zacua Ventures, with participation from Pear VC,…
AI pendants back in vogue at tech show after early setback
, 2026-01-11 19:10:00 Pendants and brooches packed with artificial intelligence abounded at the Consumer Electronics Show, using cameras and microphones to watch and listen through the day like a vigilant…
Want AI Skills Without the Big Price Tag? These 2026 Certifications Deliver Value
Kezia Jungco , 2026-01-09 19:36:00 Explore five free and low-cost AI certifications that help tech professionals build AI skills across cloud, machine learning, and generative AI. The post Want AI…
Discrete spatial diffusion models data while obeying scientific principles
, 2026-01-09 19:01:00 Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new approach that addresses the limitations of generative AI models. Unlike generative diffusion models, the team's Discrete Spatial…
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
Joel Lehman , 2024-08-03 17:00:00 IntroductionImagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates…
X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire
Ram Iyer , 2026-01-09 13:59:00 Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool invited heavy criticism from across…
Independent LLM Evals as a Service — with George Cameron and Micah-Hill Smith
Latent.Space , 2026-01-08 15:08:00 Happy New Year! You may have noticed that in 2025 we had moved toward YouTube as our primary podcasting platform. As we’ll explain in the next…
LWiAI Podcast #230 – 2025 Retrospective, Nvidia buys Groq, GLM 4.7, METR
Last Week in AI , 2026-01-07 06:59:00 Our 230th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!Recorded on 01/02/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free…
Debug agents from your terminal
LangChain Accounts , 2025-12-10 17:07:00 Today, we're launching LangSmith Fetch, a CLI tool that brings the full power of LangSmith tracing directly into your terminal and IDE.If you're building agents…
Adjusted Expected Improvement for Cumulative Regret Minimization in Noisy Bayesian Optimization
Shouri Hu, Haowei Wang, Zhongxiang Dai, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Szu Hui Ng , 2025-01-01 00:00:00 Adjusted Expected Improvement for Cumulative Regret Minimization in Noisy Bayesian Optimization Shouri Hu, Haowei…
8 plots that explain the state of open models
Nathan Lambert , 2026-01-07 15:07:00 Starting 2026, most people are aware that a handful of Chinese companies are making strong, open AI models that are applying increasing pressure on the…
How to Scale Patient Empathy in an Overburdened Healthcare System
Crystal Ricevuto , 2026-01-06 14:57:00 Consumers can walk into their local coffee shop, where the barista knows their name and order, or use an app that already anticipates their needs.…
Sharp rise in work-related fatalities seen in 2025
Michael McHale , 2026-01-05 12:24:00 Agriculture was the most dangerous sector, while four-in-ten fatalities related to self-employed people There was a 61 per cent increase in work-related fatalities in Ireland…
How Medical AI Scribes Are Changing Everyday Healthcare
MNB Guest , 2026-01-05 14:19:00 Healthcare moves fast every day. Doctors meet many patients back to back. Notes still need to be written after every visit. This takes a lot…
Advertisements Promising Patients a ‘Dream Body’ With Minimal Risk Get Little Scrutiny
Fred Schulte, KFF Health News , 2025-12-31 10:00:00 Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just…
Missed early vaccines tied to parents later skipping measles shots
Helen Branswell , 2026-01-02 16:00:00 Babies who don’t get their first round of vaccines on time at 2 months of age are much less likely to get vaccinated against measles,…
Gaza: Israel moves to ban dozens of aid groups in “cynical and calculated” move
Elisabeth Mahase , 2026-01-02 15:36:00 Israel’s “cynical and calculated” threat to ban aid organisations from the Gaza Strip could leave Palestinians without lifesaving medical care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.New…
Combination therapy for Burkitt's lymphoma dramatically improves cure rates in mice
, 2026-01-02 21:00:00 Burkitt's lymphoma is a rare and aggressive blood cancer characterized by a translocation of the MYC gene. It occurs most often in children and young adults. In…
Irregular collagen in uterine scars linked to placenta accreta development
, 2026-01-02 17:41:00 Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death. Yet…
The tech news stories under the radar in 2025
Cate Lawrence , 2025-12-29 09:00:00 After a particularly spirited online conversation about whether tech media should still be covering funding rounds, I found myself reflecting on what we actually do —…
Turning PCs and mobile devices into AI infrastructure can slash operational costs
, 2026-01-02 17:10:00 Until now, AI services based on large language models (LLMs) have mostly relied on expensive data center GPUs. This has resulted in high operational costs and created…
Elon Musk Is Turning ‘Colossus’ Data Center Into a 2-Gigawatt AI Behemoth
Aminu Abdullahi , 2025-12-31 19:48:00 Elon Musk is rapidly scaling xAI’s Colossus data center into a hyperscale AI powerhouse, raising stakes around power, cost, and the AI arms race. The…
SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11% with $41bln investment
, 2025-12-31 10:10:00 Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11% after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker…
CNBC Asked a Robot About the AI Bubble. Here’s What Happened.
The Tech Buzz , 2025-12-30 23:39:00 Unitree's sleek G1 humanoid robot just became the year's most unexpected AI industry commentator. CNBC asked KOID, a 77-pound machine with a glowing face…
What’s Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
Kenneth Li , 2024-09-09 17:28:00 LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However,…
Police charge driver who allegedly killed a pedestrian while livestreaming on TikTok
Anthony Ha , 2025-12-28 21:52:00 Local police said they have charged an Illinois driver who struck and killed a pedestrian while she was livestreaming on TikTok. The New York Times…
Building open AI to cure or prevent all disease by 2110 (w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan)
swyx (Shawn) , 2025-11-13 19:46:00 Latent Space is growing! We are proud to announce our new AI4Science show, with new hosts Brandon and RJ, as CZI, Google, OpenAI, and others…
Last Week in AI #329 – GPT 5.2, GenAI.mil, Disney in Sora
Last Week in AI , 2025-12-16 07:45:00 GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battleRelated:OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’OpenAI released the GPT-5.2 model series—Instant, Thinking,…
Debugging Deep Agents with LangSmith
LangChain Accounts , 2025-12-10 17:08:00 Debugging is the process of finding and fixing errors. This is a critical step in software engineering, and even more critical in agent engineering. One…
Implicit vs Unfolded Graph Neural Networks
Yongyi Yang, Tang Liu, Yangkun Wang, Zengfeng Huang, David Wipf , 2025-01-01 00:00:00 Implicit vs Unfolded Graph Neural Networks Yongyi Yang, Tang Liu, Yangkun Wang, Zengfeng Huang, David Wipf; 26(82):1−46,…
Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand
Nathan Lambert , 2025-12-18 18:31:00 Nathan sits down with Florian, our open model analyst to get spicy into debates of which labs won and lost momentum in open models of…
Valerie Health Snags $30M to Advance AI Front Office for Independent Provider Groups
Marissa Plescia , 2025-12-23 22:03:00 Valerie Health, an AI front office for independent provider groups, has secured $30 million in Series A funding, the company announced last week. San Francisco-based…
HSE warns of high-strength MDMA in circulation this Christmas
Editorial Staff , 2025-12-19 08:30:00 Tablets with record amount of MDMA found by drug-checking services this year Health officials are warning the public of tablets containing record high levels of…
Questions to Ask Before Using Alertness Medicines
MNB Guest , 2025-12-23 16:40:00 You feel it at 2:30 pm, when your eyelids fight and your notes stop making sense. The coffee that helped at 10 now tastes bitter…
A Few More Good Things From 2025
Dan Weissmann , 2025-12-23 10:00:00 Dan Weissmann An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical…
PBMs, pharma companies avoid drug price transparency
Bob Herman , 2025-12-22 18:20:00 Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all…
Goodbye to the year of the Big Lie; hello, reverse centaur
Kamran Abbasi , 2025-12-18 11:11:00 We live in a world of lies, damned lies, and AI hallucinations. A US publication calculated that Donald Trump told 30 573 lies during his…
Natural protein drug may slow neuron death linked to Alzheimer's disease
, 2025-12-20 18:50:00 Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other…
Cutting carbs, not fat, may better control appetite in women
, 2025-12-19 13:55:00 A short-term clinical trial suggests that cutting carbohydrates, not fat, may be better for curbing food cues and emotional eating in women living with lipedema. Study: Hedonic…
StretchSense raises $2.3M to drive global expansion of XR training gloves
Tamara Djurickovic , 2025-12-19 10:00:00 StretchSense, a wearable technology company that develops data capture gloves, has secured $2.3 million in funding led by PXN Ventures, with support from Scottish Enterprise.…
AI's 2025 carbon footprint may match New York City, report estimates
, 2025-12-18 19:10:00 By the end of the year, the carbon footprint of global AI systems for the whole of 2025 could equal that of New York City. At the…
Last-Minute Amazon Prime Deals for Holiday Shopping
Kezia Jungco , 2025-12-18 18:35:00 Five standout last-minute Amazon Prime deals for holiday shopping: Echo Show 8, Kindle Paperwhite, Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Belkin charger, and smart home essentials.…
Human language inspired AI—now, we can use that AI to learn about language
, 2025-12-18 20:37:00 Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to improve AI along the way. She defended her…
Google and Nvidia Back Lovable at $6.6B Valuation
The Tech Buzz , 2025-12-18 15:18:00 The Buzz■Google's CapitalG and Menlo Ventures led Lovable's $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation, with Nvidia's NVentures also participating■Lovable hit $200M in annual…
The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
Henry Kvinge , 2024-11-16 16:46:00 What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research…