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Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

As Medicare gets hollowed out, it's opened up room for another industry to take root in: AI. It's long been the practice of private health insurers to require prior authorization before you can get the treatment you need. Often, they'll try to deny as many of these claims as possible — including with ...

6 hours ago

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Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

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Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

Over the past few years, there have been more and more stories — some sad, all strange — about people falling in love (and lust) with so-called AI-companions. As AI tools allegedly grow more sophisticated and gain more mainstream acceptance, so too has interest in these digital paramours increased ...

9 hours ago

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Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

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Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

Something keeps happening to people who get addicted to chatbots like ChatGPT. It's being called "AI psychosis": turning to the AI models for advice, users soon become entranced by the genial machine's human-like responses. It becomes not just a tool but a companion — and the worst kind: one that ...

10 hours ago

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Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

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Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video

Last week, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Will Smith — himself the victim of a gross AI meme about slurping spaghetti — showed the world that he's not so fresh anymore when his team used AI to add rapturous fans to concert footage of his "Based on a True Story" comeback tour. Online observers quickly ...

13 hours ago

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Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video

WIRED Science

Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic.

17 hours ago

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Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution

New York Times Science

The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display.

22 hours ago

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The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

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J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

AI Americana The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and create ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don't raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human ...

2 days ago

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J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

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Scientists Have Figured Which Types of People Are Successfully Hooking Up the Most on Tinder

In the nearly 13 years since Tinder launched, the dating app has been everything from a straight alternative to Grindr and a sexual harassment factory to a place where people meet their spouses and, finally, an AI-riddled graveyard. Nevertheless, there are some flesh-and-blood humans still successfully ...

2 days ago

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Scientists Have Figured Which Types of People Are Successfully Hooking Up the Most on Tinder

WIRED Science

These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways