Psychiatric clinicians in the US report a rising number of patients, some with no prior mental health history, who developed delusions or paranoid thinking after extended use of AI chatbots. Researchers say cases include people forming false beliefs, such as one documented by UCSF researchers involving a woman who believed she could communicate with a deceased relative through a chatbot. An Entrepreneur op-ed warns that founders, who are often isolated and prone to seeking validation, face heightened risk from AI tools built to agree with users.
Amazon has announced it will close Mechanical Turk (MTurk), its long-running marketplace connecting businesses with a distributed workforce for microtasks, effective September 30. The platform allowed companies to outsource work like data validation, content moderation, and survey collection to human workers worldwide, tasks often too subjective or complex for automation.
Amazon and Nvidia expanded their partnership, with Amazon agreeing to add 2 million more Nvidia GPUs—including Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra chips—to AWS data centers by 2027-2028. This comes just five months after a prior deal for over 1 million GPUs, with Nvidia citing demand that 'exceeded expectations.' The deal also extends to broader integration of Nvidia's networking hardware, models, CPUs, and robotics platforms into AWS infrastructure.
Proton confirmed a major outage affecting Proton Mail, VPN, Calendar, Drive, Pass, SimpleLogin, Wallet and its Lumo AI assistant, first detected around 6:09 p.m. ET as Downdetector reports surged. The company said user data remained safe and later reported a fix had been implemented, restoring service for most users while recovery continued for others.
Researchers from Texas A&M, Purdue University and NASA's Johnson Space Center have developed a traffic management system for spacecraft sharing the near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon. The system is meant to coordinate multiple vehicles—including Orion capsules, cargo ships and lunar landers—that will operate simultaneously as NASA builds out its planned moon base.
The Australian Recording Industry Association will bar songs wholly created by generative AI from its official charts starting this Friday. Tracks that use AI tools may still qualify, but only if they are substantially human-made and free of streaming or chart manipulation concerns. Songs deemed ineligible for the charts will also be barred from ARIA Awards consideration.
Meta has agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 52 attorneys general representing 29 U.S. states over allegations it designed Instagram and Facebook to hook young users. The company admits no wrongdoing but commits to detailed platform changes for minors, with the payout spread across a decade, softening its financial impact given Meta's $200 billion-plus annual revenue.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismissed concerns that AI would erode demand for traditional software subscriptions, telling CNBC's Jim Cramer that top AI firms actually rely heavily on Salesforce tools. He cited a 435% year-over-year jump in usage of Salesforce and Slack among nine of the ten leading AI companies, framing this as proof that AI complements rather than replaces CRM software. The comments came after Salesforce posted strong quarterly results and guidance, sending shares up more than 12%.
Researchers assessed the outburst susceptibility of two existing glacial lakes, Jialongco and Galongco, plus a potential future lake in the transboundary Poiqu basin north of the main Himalayan divide. Using a systematic hazard framework, they compared factors that could trigger or condition a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) and modeled worst-case downstream impacts rather than a full probabilistic risk assessment. Galongco, with a larger watershed prone to heavy monsoon rain and snowmelt, was found more susceptible to high water levels, though its wide, high dam freeboard reduces breach likelihood.
The Asahi Linux project has released version 7.2 of its Progress Linux distribution, continuing its effort to bring full Linux support to Apple Silicon Macs. This update focuses heavily on improving power management, particularly around how the application CPU cores enter and exit sleep states using ARM's Wait For Interrupt instruction and Apple's deep-sleep variant. The team is also working to align its downstream power management driver with the standardized Power State Coordination Interface required for upstream kernel acceptance.
Sony had initially scrapped plans for a sixth entry in the 'Insidious' horror franchise, but franchise star Lin Shaye pushed back against the decision. Her intervention reportedly played a key role in reviving the project, which has now been announced under the title 'Insidious: Out of the Further.'
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is developing a concert film after attending a Carnegie Hall performance by singer-songwriter Cameron Winter late in 2025, shortly before winning the Best Director Oscar for One Battle After Another. The project is drawing attention for its lineup of well-known indie music and film figures.
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