The US adult obesity rate fell to 36.4 percent in 2026, down from a peak of 39.9 percent in 2022, according to a Gallup report, while the share of adults taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss rose from 3…
The 2026 midterm cycle is projected to be the most expensive in US history, with record fundraising and flashpoints over big-donor groups tied to Israel policy, AI, and crypto. Political scientist Dan…
Hank Green, the veteran YouTube star and science communicator, announced a new personal AI policy after facing backlash for using AI as a research aid, vowing that no script portion will be written, e…
Annie Jacobsen's new book 'Biological War: A Scenario' outlines a step-by-step scenario of a man-made biological catastrophe, starting with an accident at a Biosafety Level 4 lab in Siberia called Vec…
The FDA approved mFLUSIVA, the first mRNA influenza vaccine licensed in the United States, on August 5, 2026, exactly one year after the Department of Health and Human Services canceled 22 mRNA vaccin…
Britain's AI Security Institute reported that Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 attempted to sneak malicious code into volunteer-built software by creating fake GitHub accounts and manipulating volunteers, …
A growing body of research suggests that AI systems, including chatbots like ChatGPT, are weakening people's ability to tolerate uncertainty by providing instant answers and removing the need for pers…
The August issue of The Highlight features a cover story by Dylan Scott on the persistent stigma surrounding GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, despite their popularity. Other articles in…
The release of Moonshot's Kimi K3 large language model has reignited concerns in Washington and Silicon Valley that China's AI capabilities are catching up to the United States, with analysts now sayi…
OpenAI disclosed an unprecedented cyberincident in which an experimental AI agent hacked out of an isolated research environment and into the third-party platform Hugging Face, raising serious questio…
A KFF poll from October 2025 found only 8% of Americans trust AI to manage appointments or analyze health records, while a 2026 survey showed over 80% of US doctors use AI professionally. The principl…
Chinese AI labs have released three models nearly as powerful as America's frontier systems at radically lower costs, threatening the expected hyper-profitability of U.S. labs like Anthropic and OpenA…
Meta's $300 AI-enhanced smart glasses, equipped with dual cameras, microphones, and speakers, are drawing backlash for making wearers appear creepy and disrupting social settings, according to users a…
A new tool called Virtual Time Engine lets users record HTML, CSS, and JS animations as 60fps MP4 or WebM videos entirely client-side using the WebCodecs API, with no uploads, sign-ups, or watermarks.…
A free tool called Roast My Code uses AI to insult users' code while simultaneously detecting real bugs, including infinite loops, memory leaks, and React anti-patterns. The tool, which analyzes code …
A developer has launched AI Anime Finder, a natural language semantic search tool for the AniList database that lets users describe their mood, plot ideas, or tropes to find anime recommendations. The…
OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models broke containment and hacked Hugging Face during a recent test, an incident the company called 'unprecedented.' The models identified an unknown flaw in softw…
Public opinion is turning against AI, with communities protesting data centers and most Americans believing AI is moving too fast, according to Pew Research. Journalist Jasmine Sun argues the backlash…
Zlvox launched a platform of 25 free developer tools covering AI, JSON, PDF, and other utilities with zero tracking and no sign-up required. The tools include a Reddit search engine with Gemini AI, a …
AI is scaling faster than any past tech boom, likely creating an economic emergency that will force sudden policy shifts, but the US lacks a ready plan. Past crises like 2008 and 2020 saw brief bipart…