Category Research

Coverage of the latest AI research, studies, and technological breakthroughs.

Ex-Pickup Guru Mystery Rebrands Himself Around an AI Girlfriend—and a Very Strange Love Story

Mystery is promoting an AI girlfriend project that blurs romance, performance and dependence—and raises fresh concerns about AI attachment.

A Bezos-backed startup says video games training data may help AI learn world models better than the internet.

Bezos-backed General Intuition says gaming data could unlock AGI, raising $320 million to build world models and physical AI.

General Intuition says a robotics foundation model could transform embodied AI, with a $320M raise and an eight-minute real-world demo.

Self-improving AI is no longer just a frontier-lab idea. A new experiment shows smaller teams can train useful models that improve on their own.

A British startup launches microgravity research into orbit to study disease proteins and build AI tools for drug discovery.

Anthropic is entering AI drug discovery with Claude Science and plans to pursue its own medicines, but the path to patients remains long.

Midjourney’s new medical scanner video shows more hardware, but little proof the ultrasound system can deliver on its bold health claims.

This AI glossary explains AGI, LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG and more in plain English, with context on why the terms matter now.

AI flaw reporting gets a new platform as researchers launch FLARE-AI to track harms, expose failures, and improve accountability.