Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout
By GROUNDWORK Published on December 09, 2025 Two shoppers walk into the exact same grocery store, at the exact same time, and pick up the exact same box of Cheerios. Then, they head to the cash register to check out. This sounds like the opening to one of those “three guys walk into a bar” […]
How to fix genetic ‘nonsense’: versatile gene-editing tool could tackle a host of diseases
By nature Published on November 19, 2025 A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated by disease-causing mutations. The method might one day overcome a key stumbling block faced by gene-editing therapies: the need to design a bespoke treatment for each disease. Read More
A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms
By Bloomberg Published on November 18, 2025 Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool. Five years after its […]
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
By WSJ Published on November 08, 2025 For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby. Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called Preventive—has been quietly preparing what would amount […]
Can AI Boards Outperform Human Ones?
By HBR Published on November 05, 2025 According to a recent poll of 500 global CEOs, 94% believe AI could offer better counsel than at least one of their human board members. In October 2025, Samruk-Kazyna, the National Wealth Fund of Kazakhstan, announced the appointment of SKAI (Samruk-Kazyna Artificial Intelligence), as a voting member of its […]
The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest
By WSJ Published on October 18, 2025 Anthropic’s problem might be that it’s the sober one at the AI rager. One of its co-founders drew a string of unusual rebukes from the White House this past week after penning a rather personal essay about his own uneasiness around the work his industry is doing. “Make […]
Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing ‘fictitious’ cases
By The Guardian Published on October 16, 2025 An immigration barrister was found by a judge to be using AI to do his work for a tribunal hearing after citing cases that were “entirely fictitious” or “wholly irrelevant”. Chowdhury Rahman was discovered using ChatGPT-like software to prepare his legal research, a tribunal heard. Rahman was […]
Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
By Futurism Published on October 08, 2025 Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink […]
Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind
By Futurism Published on October 07, 2025 It’s probably not a shock to you that the people leading the AI industry don’t have your best interests at heart. But what if we told you that some of them are actually pretty okay with humanity being subjugated, replaced, or wiped out, by the machines they’re creating? […]