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Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election

IEEE Offers More Services to Cities That Want to Be Smarter

Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

Too tired to be judged by humans?

Across four experiments, greater social jet lag was linked to stronger preference for AI evaluators, largely through social anxiety — and the effect depended on whether AI was framed as neutral.

When the attention economy becomes a child-safety problem

A documentary follows Kristin Bride’s campaign after her son’s death, placing cyberbullying, persuasive platform design and the business model of attention inside the same child-safety argument.

What makes a political deepfake believable enough to share?

A new study examines how plausibility, media literacy and prior attitudes relate to detection, liking and intentions to share political deepfakes on social media.

Clinical trials look different on Bluesky and X

An exploratory comparison of more than 14,000 public posts found markedly different communication patterns across the two platforms — a reminder that the medium can shape how medical research reaches people.

Can machine learning spot student distress in wartime?

A study of 225 university students in Lebanon tested whether machine-learning models could identify depression, anxiety and stress during the 2024 war — with promising internal performance and a clear need for independent validation.

The age a model assigns you

When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.

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.

Notification debt: the invisible cognitive tax

Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.

Empathy at scale: what chatbots cannot borrow

Language models can produce caring sentences. Empathy, in the human literature, is not only sentences.

When seeing is no longer enough

As synthetic audio and video fool casual viewers, trust becomes a practised skill — not a default of perception.

Why video calls drain social attention faster than rooms do

Back-to-back video days often feel heavier than rooms. A theoretical account names the load. It is not a universal law of the medium.