autonomy

IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

What age gates can — and cannot — fix about social media

Australia’s under-16 restrictions are reducing account ownership for some young users, but workarounds and privacy trade-offs show why prohibition alone cannot solve the design problem.

Sleep that does not have to be earned

A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.

Motivation is not a mood — it is a circuit people will sell

Animal work on orexin and persistence is real. The leap from rat breakpoint to a human product is not.

The mind that outsources thinking

When fluent machines answer before we finish forming the question, judgment does not vanish overnight. It thins — rehearsal by rehearsal — until expertise becomes a feeling we can no longer check.