@Techmeme@techhub.socialScientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol
@davej@dice.camp“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialChat GPT, what is a real estate novelist? Is that a good paying job? How can I become a real estate novelist?
#ConfuseAgenticAI #ChatGPT #ScottHumor
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chatgpt-launches-a-year-end-review…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen)
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
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