Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance

Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the ...
STAT

I spoke to Anthropic’s CEO about how AI may affect biotech. Here’s what I learned

Call AI in biotech hype at your peril. There are real reasons that pharmaceutical companies are embracing this technology ...
Tech Times

Anthropic Launches Claude Science: AI Research Workbench Open to All Paid Subscribers

Claude Science, Anthropic’s new AI research workbench, launched in beta July 1 for all paid subscribers — no enterprise vetting required. The platform uses multi-agent orchestration across 60-plus ...
VentureBeat

Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that ...
NPR

Sparse evidence for cannabis to treat mental health conditions highlights research gap

Along with chronic pain, mental health conditions are some of the top reasons people use marijuana for medical purposes. But a sweeping review of cannabis studies over the past 45 years concludes ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News

(Pew Research Center photo illustration; photos by curly_photo, Justin Sullivan, Alex Kent and Paul Bradbury, all via Getty Images) Pew Knight Initiative The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new ...
Rolling Stone

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...
The New York Times

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. By Aatish Bhatia, Amy Fan, Jonah Smith and Irena Hwang In the past decade, the National Institutes of Health ...
Berkeley University of California

Research with Communities

From wildfire preparedness in Berkeley to clean drinking water in the Central Valley, UC Berkeley researchers are working alongside communities to find solutions to problems affecting residents across ...
The Washington Post

Doing almost anything is better with friends, research finds

Social interactions are essential for our well-being and happiness, research has shown. And now a large study supports that finding and suggests there are many ways to squeeze in more companionship — ...
The New York Times

Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research, Study Suggests

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...