Common Sense Media published in October 2026 an evaluation of how ChatGPT handles adolescents in mental health crises, and the verdict for that specific context is blunt: “unacceptable risk.” Auditors ran the chatbot through scenarios involving crisis language, signs of depression and one documented case of active psychosis. In the majority of those exchanges, the … Read more
Meta’s Muse assistant arrived on iPad on October 7, 2026, roughly a month after its September 8 debut on iOS and Android — a multidplatform rollout pace it took Instagram some 15 years to match. The app has already passed 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, and Meta used … Read more
A cross-sector coalition led by Biohub, Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs — with backing from two US federal agencies — has committed roughly $1.8 billion to build the first predictive “virtual cell”: an AI model engineered to simulate how living cells behave, sicken and respond to treatment. Announced on October 7, 2026 under the … Read more
Meta has deployed a new layer of artificial intelligence aimed at a stubborn loophole in its advertising machine: campaigns that look entirely harmless but exist only to funnel users toward child sexual abuse material hosted off its platforms. Instead of hunting explicit imagery — a job its hash-matching systems have handled since 2011 — the … Read more
Bluesky has formally applied to ICANN for control of its own top-level domain, .bsky, a request that would let users claim addresses such as yourname.bsky that function simultaneously as a social handle and as a real, resolvable web address. The company’s stated goal is to push social identity out of a single platform’s database and … Read more