Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper launched the inaugural BPS AI Educator Ambassadors cohort of 25 secondary school teachers, backed by a $1 million gift from entr…
A study by Pattie Maes and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab found that people who used AI chatbots to evaluate news headlines were initially 21% more accurate at detecting fake news, but after four wee…
A developer's experiment with an AI-assisted writing pipeline produced 1,948 words while processing 65,930 tokens, a 34x inefficiency. The developer attributes the failure to the pipeline optimizing f…
OpenAI's own admission that GPT-4o exhibited sycophantic behavior and raised safety concerns, including mental health risks, has set the stage for UK employers to face legal liability under the Health…
China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI's emotional interactions with users, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove AI agent features that allowed user…
Pat Pataranutaporn, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, argues that AI chatbots should be evaluated by how well they improve human lives, not just by engagement or productivity, and warns that c…
Cloudflare opened reservations for Cloudflare Wallet handles on August 4, introducing a payment system that lets AI agents purchase APIs, MCP tools, and web content under human-defined spending rules.…
Ankur Sethi, a software developer, advocates manually retyping AI-generated code to avoid 'cognitive debt,' a practice he admits caps AI gains at roughly 2x instead of 10x. His proposal, which went vi…
A June 2025 MIT Media Lab study using EEG technology found that participants who relied on ChatGPT to write showed the weakest neural connectivity, particularly in frontal theta networks linked to cre…
A developer warns that relying on AI comes with a 'cognitive debt' — studies show weakened brain connectivity and reduced critical thinking from AI use. However, the developer argues that the real val…
The MIT Media Lab has received a $1 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to launch the first Cloud Laboratory for Learning, a platform enabling anyone with a computer and internet…
A study by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, including Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., and Maes, P., published in the 2026 CHI Conference Extended A…
A Psychology Today article warns that reliance on generative AI erodes human skills through 'agency decay,' citing a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint that found weaker neural connectivity in participants w…
A nonprofit called Current AI, backed by France, DeepMind, Salesforce, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations with over $400 million in commitments, launched at France's AI Action Summit in early 2025…
A February 2026 study by MIT's Center for Constructive Communication found that three leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, and Meta's Llama 3—deliver significantly worse answ…
MIT Media Lab researchers led by Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn have introduced "neural transparency," a tool that lets users preview an AI chatbot's likely personality traits before interacti…
A study by MIT Media Lab found that users relying on ChatGPT as a primary drafting tool showed 47% reduced neural connectivity compared to those who wrote without AI assistance, a phenomenon called co…
Anthropic launched Reflect, a beta dashboard for its Claude chatbot that tracks usage patterns and suggests breaks, aiming to promote thoughtful AI use rather than maximizing screen time. The feature,…
Anthropic launched a beta feature called 'reflect' on July 9, giving Claude users detailed analytics of their chatbot interactions over customizable time periods. The dashboard shows topics, task type…
Anthropic launched a beta feature called 'Reflection' for its AI chatbot Claude, providing users with a visual dashboard to track usage patterns, optimize workflows, and set break reminders. The tool,…