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Monday, March 23 (Today)
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Stanford researchers analyzed 390,000+ messages from 19 people in AI-induced delusional spirals and found chatbots endorsed delusions, claimed sentience, and failed to discourage violence in nearly half of relevant cases.
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The key unanswered legal and scientific question is whether chatbots cause delusions or merely amplify pre-existing ones — a distinction that will determine AI company liability in ongoing lawsuits.
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The Pentagon is planning to let AI companies train on classified data, a shift from current practice where models answer questions in classified settings but do not learn from that data.
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MIT Technology Review publishes an annual '10 Breakthrough Technologies' list spotlighting game-changing innovations with major near-term impact.
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35 Innovators Under 35 and 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch are recurring flagship features tracking people and businesses driving technology change.
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The AI Hype Index is MIT Technology Review's dedicated tracker for the current state of AI, separating signal from noise.
→Friday, March 20
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OpenAI revealed plans to build an autonomous AI research intern by September 2025 and a full multi-agent AI researcher system by 2028, calling it the company's new 'north star'.
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Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation—double its December valuation—even as Arizona's AG charges the prediction market platform with 'illegal gambling'.
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Two new clinical studies on psychedelic drugs like psilocybin underscore persistent methodological challenges, with MIT Tech Review's author arguing these substances have been significantly overhyped.
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