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ai human perception cognition3 weeks ago5 min

The Deep AI Impact on Human Psychology: When Flawed Video Summaries Implant False Memories

Expanded research report on how misleading AI video summaries dropped eyewitness recall from 83.6% to 44.8% in a Georgetown and University of Washington study — and what the result reveals about the AI impact on human psychology, what AI in psychology means, and whether AI can understand human psychology at all.

ai decision making psychology3 weeks ago3 min

The AI Impact on Human Psychology: You Can Now Argue a Position You Haven't Chosen Yet

AI hands you polished arguments for stances you haven't adopted yet. The psychological research on agency, reactive co-writing, and preference formation suggests something uncomfortable is happening to how we form beliefs.

self harness agent evaluation self modification3 weeks ago3 min

Adaptive Practice for AI Agents Without Rebuilding the World

An in-depth look at Google Research's EnvHarness, an open-source framework that adapts static simulation environments to AI agent weaknesses via Setup, Rule, and Link wrappers and EnvRigger automation.

ai ordering systems3 weeks ago3 min

KKR and L Catterton pour $135 million into Restaurant365's bet that restaurants want one dashboard, not ten

The all-in-one restaurant management startup raises its largest round yet as investors wager the food-service industry is finally ready to consolidate its sprawling tech stack.

ai vulnerability management policy3 weeks ago4 min

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Meets the FedRAMP 20x Era: Inside the VDR and VER Overhaul

FedRAMP's new Vulnerability Detection and Response and Evaluation and Reporting rules demand daily scans, faster remediation, and machine-readable evidence — and they hand artificial intelligence cybersecurity defenses the data layer they were always missing.

facial recognition privacy3 weeks ago4 min

Tilly Norwood's Cantonese Meltdown and the Face-Scanning Hotline That Won't Let You Opt Out

AI actress Tilly Norwood glitched into Cantonese on live TV, and the "Talking Tilly" video-call hotline behind the character runs mandatory face scans and mood analysis on every caller. Here's what Xicoia's privacy policy actually says.

how it works3 weeks ago5 min

The Cloud Is a Building: What Actually Lives Beneath the Metaphor

A clear-eyed look at what cloud computing really is — the servers, the economics, the architecture — stripped of marketing fog and set against the landscape it actually occupies.

ai enterprise ai model strategy3 weeks ago3 min

Indian Enterprises AI Leadership: Context-Aware AI Beyond Frontier Models

Explore how EXL CEO Rohit Kapoor’s framework, robust AI governance, and modern enterprise AI platforms enable organizations to build context-aware AI advantage.

cybersecurity nation state cybercrime3 weeks ago3 min

AI Cybersecurity Threats in 2026: Russian Phishing Operators Still Beat Encrypted Apps With a Single Click

UNC4221 phishing campaigns exploit Signal's device-linking feature to compromise Ukrainian military communications — a reminder that in an era of AI cybersecurity threats, the oldest attack surface is still the human.

case studies3 weeks ago3 min

Case Study: How CloudZero Engineers Uncovered $1.7M in Cloud Savings in Under 60 Hours

How CloudZero's engineering team uncovered $1.7M in annualized cloud savings in under 60 hours, proving that engineering-led cost optimization beats automation and vendor discounting every time.

comparative sensory neuroscience3 weeks ago6 min

Neuroscience - Wikipedia Meets the Pufferfish: How a Single Latch Rewired Taste

The first 3D crystal structure of a pufferfish umami receptor reveals a molecular latch that lets one protein taste both sweet and savory — a finding with real implications for flavor science and sensory evolution.

ai human perception cognition3 weeks ago5 min

The Face You Grow Into — Names, Perception, and the AI Impact on Human Psychology

A new PNAS study found that adults' faces evolve to match their names, while children's faces do not. I unpack what this self-fulfilling prophecy tells us about social expectations, machine learning, and the AI impact on human psychology.