I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

The Pendulum Principle: A Healthy Way to Use AI

AI wants you engaged. That is literally what it was built for. Here is how to use it without letting it use you.

These computer voices sound human enough to mislead, but one layer of speech still breaks the illusion

We are surrounded by computer-generated voices these days, from navigation systems and voice assistants to automated announcements. But how human do these voices actually sound? A recent study by the ...

Button-pushing explorers: How to grasp that AI agents can do amazing things while knowing nothing

The nonprofit ARC Prize Foundation on May 1, 2026, released the results of a new benchmark: a test of an AI system’s ability ...
MIT Technology Review

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

Figure AI's robots can make a bed faster than you

Figure AI release a video of two humanoid robots making a bed together — a deceptively hard task that tests coordination, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Singing Mice Squeak Back and Forth—and Don’t Interrupt. Scientists Found the Brain Pathway Behind Their Impressive Songs

Alston’s singing mice carry out complex vocalizations and even appear to converse politely with one another. The neural ...
eWeek

Figure’s Humanoid Robots Tidy a Bedroom, Hinting at Bigger Home Automation Leap

Figure AI’s latest humanoid robot demo shows two machines tidying a bedroom and making a bed without direct communication.

You can now talk to The Wiggles on Google Assistant

Google Assistant is already another handy way to distract the kids, and now Australian superstars The Wiggles are making ...