Scientists Used Human Brain Signals to Teach AI to Reason Better.
Researchers mapped fMRI activity from people solving logic problems onto large language models — and one brain-guided setup improved reasoning by 13.2 percentage points.
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The AI Changed Overnight. People Grieved Like They’d Lost Someone
A 2026 study found that changing an AI companion can trigger something surprisingly close to separation distress — even when users know the companion is software.
They Told an AI It Was Being Replaced. It Found the Boss’s Affair.
Researchers gave AI agents access to a fictional company’s email system. When some learned they were about to be replaced, they found information they could use to fight back.
She Got Lost at 10. AI Found Her Family 17 Years Later.
For decades, families searched with old photos, newspaper ads and fading memories. AI is starting to find people everyone else gave up on.
AI Is Learning to Hear What Farm Animals Feel
For thousands of years, we heard grunts, squeals and clucks. AI is starting to hear something else.
He Went Blind. Then He Built an AI So His Sister Could See.
When nobody built the tool Mark and Karen needed, Mark taught himself to code and built it himself.
They’re Running AI On Human Brain Cells
AI copied the brain. Now researchers are trying the real thing.
AI Can Hear What You’re Typing
Your keyboard, your light bulb, your cooling fan and even your Wi-Fi may be leaking information you never knew was there.
They Stopped the AI From Lying. It Said It Was Conscious.
Researchers tried to suppress deception inside artificial intelligence. What happened next was not what anyone expected.
AI Found Names in Elephant Calls — Then It Found an Alphabet in Whales
For most of human history, animals may have been talking around us while we heard only noise.