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Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays

Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Hallucinations have plagued OpenAI ever since it launched its blockbuster ChatGPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of large language models to sound both plausible and confident about outputs that are totally wrong continues to represent a major thorn in the sides of execs who claim the AI boom is both bigger and faster than the industrial revolution. The issue still haunts even the most sophisticated AI models today, a persistent issue unlikely to be resolved any time soon — if ever, experts warn. It’s a particularly troublesome reality in a healthcare setting, from Google’s AI Overviews feature giving out dangerous “health” advice to hospitals deploying transcription tools that invent nonexistent medications and more. And when it comes to analyzing radiology scans — an application for AI long championed by its advocates in the healthcare industry — the situation becomes even more concerning. As detailed in a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, a team of researchers at Stanford University found …

Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data

Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data

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Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced by your brain. This is not science fiction. Nor is it about brain implants for paralysed patients or experimental medical procedures. A fast-growing consumer market of non-invasive neurotechnology – wearable headsets, brain activity-reading headbands, focus-enhancing devices – is already here, already being sold and already collecting neural data from ordinary users. But the legal and ethical frameworks to govern it are struggling to keep up. A landmark case from Chile shows why this matters. In August 2023, Chile’s Supreme Court issued the world’s first ruling on commercial neurodata. The case involved Senator Guido Girardi and Emotiv Inc, a San Francisco company selling the Insight wireless headset – a consumer device marketed for focus, meditation and cognitive performance. When Girardi began using it, he discovered that accepting the terms of service meant granting Emotiv a worldwide, irrevocable and perpetual licence over …

Deep sea landscapes are a new frontier of human exploration – here’s what we may find

Deep sea landscapes are a new frontier of human exploration – here’s what we may find

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When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater mountains on which no human has ever set foot. We have better maps of the surface of the Moon than of these secret landscapes of the seafloor. However, the international 2030 seafloor project has an ambitious aim: to create a definitive map of our oceans. To date, despite huge efforts, less than a third of our oceans have been fully mapped. But one unexpected way to help understand what’s beneath the surface may come from a project one of us (Jessica) works on called Mermaid – a mission that was originally designed to detect earthquakes. Earth’s deepest region, the Marianas Trench, plunges 2km deeper than Mount Everest is high. But along the ocean floors, there are …

OpenAI’s Frontier wants to manage your AI agents – it could upend enterprise software, too

OpenAI’s Frontier wants to manage your AI agents – it could upend enterprise software, too

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Flavio Coelho/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways OpenAI’s Frontier emulates Palantir’s use of forward-deployed AI engineers. Frontier promises to also handle agent security features. Like Claude Cowork, Frontier threatens the traditional software industry. OpenAI, which to date has made most of its money from consumer users of ChatGPT, on Thursday took a page from Palantir’s playbook, aiming to move deeper into enterprise sales. Palantir is arguably the most successful enterprise AI software company, with revenue of more than $4 billion annually from government and business clients. OpenAI unveiled Frontier, a framework for deploying enterprise artificial intelligence agents; the company said the offering will help companies overcome impediments to deploying agents within organizations. Also: True agentic AI is years away – here’s why and how we get there “We’re introducing Frontier, a new platform that helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can do real work,” said OpenAI in its press release. The framework, it said, “gives agents the same skills people need to …

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

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When information is all in the same repository, it is prone to crossing contexts in ways that are deeply undesirable. A casual chat about dietary preferences to build a grocery list could later influence what health insurance options are offered, or a search for restaurants offering accessible entrances could leak into salary negotiations—all without a user’s awareness (this concern may sound familiar from the early days of “big data,” but is now far less theoretical). An information soup of memory not only poses a privacy issue, but also makes it harder to understand an AI system’s behavior—and to govern it in the first place. So what can developers do to fix this problem?  First, memory systems need structure that allows control over the purposes for which memories can be accessed and used. Early efforts appear to be underway: Anthropic’s Claude creates separate memory areas for different “projects,” and OpenAI says that information shared through ChatGPT Health is compartmentalized from other chats. These are helpful starts, but the instruments are still far too blunt: At a …

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

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AI chatbots are getting better at answering questions, summarizing documents, and solving mathematical equations, but they still largely behave like helpful assistants for one user at a time. They’re not designed to manage the messier work of real collaboration: coordinating people with competing priorities, tracking long-running decisions, and keeping teams aligned over time.  Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, thinks closing that gap is the next major frontier for foundation models. The company this week raised a $480 million seed round to build a “central nervous system” for the human-plus-AI economy. The startup’s “AI for empowering humans” framing has dominated early coverage, but the company’s actual ambition is more novel: building a new foundation model architecture designed for social intelligence, not just information retrieval or code generation. “It feels like we’re ending the first paradigm of scaling, where question-answering models were trained to be very smart at particular verticals, and now we’re entering what we believe to be the second wave of adoption where the average …

What’s the deal with Physical AI? Why the next frontier of tech is already all around you

What’s the deal with Physical AI? Why the next frontier of tech is already all around you

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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Physical AI is the latest trending frontier of the technology. It leverages real-world data for more autonomous robots. Its early stages could be on your face right now. ChatGPT’s release over three years ago triggered an AI frenzy. While AI models continue to become more capable, to truly be as helpful as possible to people in their everyday lives, they need to have access to everyday tasks. That’s only possible by allowing them to live outside a chatbot on your laptop screen and more presently in your environment.  Also: I sat down with Bluetooth reps at CES 2026 – and what they told me changed my perspective forever Enter the industry’s latest buzzword: physical AI. The term was on full display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, with nearly every company touting a new model or hardware that can contribute to advancing the space, including Nvidia. During the company’s keynote, CEO Jensen Huang even compared the significance of physical AI …

Physical AI is the next frontier – and it’s already all around you

Physical AI is the next frontier – and it’s already all around you

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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Physical AI is the latest trending frontier of the technology. It leverages real-world data for more autonomous robots. Its early stages could be on your face right now. ChatGPT’s release over three years ago triggered an AI frenzy. While AI models continue to become more capable, to truly be as helpful as possible to people in their everyday lives, they need to have access to everyday tasks. That’s only possible by allowing them to live outside a chatbot on your laptop screen and more presently in your environment.  Enter the industry’s latest buzzword: physical AI. The term was on full display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, with nearly every company touting a new model or hardware that can contribute to advancing the space, including Nvidia. During the company’s keynote, CEO Jensen Huang even compared the significance of physical AI to that of ChatGPT’s release.   “The ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here — when machines begin to understand, reason, …

Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered

Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered

Published by José Betancourt

The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe’s colonial frontier in Texas, has been rediscovered. An archaeology team from Texas Tech University, in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists, found the site in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis. The mission was established in the 1680s by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer and trader instrumental in the French colonization of North America and, by more incidental means, the United States’s claim to Texas. Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo was among the most highly successful efforts to convert the native Karankawa tribe. However, the venture ultimately was his undoing: He was killed during an expedition to locate the mouth of the Mississippi, while the Karankawa destroyed the colony, leaving its members dead, scattered, or abducted. Related Articles Spain occupied the site during its missionary campaign in North America. Still, the settlement was short-lived, and the entire mission was lost when Spain began withdrawing from …