Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor. It’s only the second time the state – and the country – has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI. State officials say it could bring costs down and ease care shortages, but physicians warn the system is opaque, risky, and […]

All week, we’ve been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in – we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple’s first half century, and you should […]

Google is launching another update to its Home app, which is supposed to make controlling your smart home with its Gemini AI assistant “more natural and reliable,” according to this week’s release notes. With the update, you can describe the type of lighting you want, such as “the color of the ocean,” and Gemini will […]

Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft’s inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a large-scale restructuring in mid-March, he’s handed off some duties and shifted focus to chasing superintelligence. Though the news was only made public last month, he tells The Verge, […]

For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person’s speech. But after failing to secure FDA clearance in time, the company is shutting down and releasing most of its technology as open-source. Some elements may even find a second life […]

OpenAI has purchased TBPN, an online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders. The show goes live every weekday at 2PM PT, often for a three-hour duration, counting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz, among its past guests, and Bloomberg, CNBC, and […]

To be honest, I thought Elon Musk would confidentially file for SpaceX’s IPO on the 20th of this month, rather than the 1st. But maybe that just means he’s moved on to other numbers, and we should all mark our calendars for June 7th as an IPO date just in case. Based on the April […]

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are “private by default,” it makes them viewable to anyone with a link, and also uses them for internal AI training unless you opt out. Granola describes itself as an “AI notepad for people […]