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Can AI companions help heal loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda
Jun 27, 2025AI companions could either be the cure to our loneliness epidemic … or humanity’s final downfall, says Eugenia Kuyda, creator of Replika — an app that allows you to create AI friends. She explores the...
Why are we sending critical metals to the dump? | Jeff More
Jun 20, 2025The world is heading toward a massive copper shortage that could derail the clean energy transition, says mining expert Jeff More. He shows how advanced sensing technology could get us back on the rig...
Information Inoculation: Defending Against Medical Myths: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health
Jun 18, 2025Ethan Lindenberger never got vaccinated as a kid. So one day, he went on Reddit and asked a simple question: "Where do I go to get vaccinated?" The post went viral, landing Lindenberger in the middle ...
What a wolf’s howl can tell us about the future of AI | Jeffrey T. Reed
Jun 13, 2025“Everybody likes nature, even though we’re watching it slowly degrade away. And that’s the big challenge of our time,” says linguist software engineer Jeffrey T. Reed, a research affiliate with the Cr...
The best invention since sliced bread? | Rachel Yang
Jun 06, 2025Industrial manufacturers spend a huge amount of energy generating heat to make everyday materials and objects, like cement, steel, and paper. And since most companies use fossil fuels to reach these h...
How AI models steal creative work — and what to do about it | Ed Newton-Rex
May 30, 2025Generative AI is built on three key resources: people, compute and data. While companies invest heavily in the first two, they often use unlicensed creative work as training data without permission or...
How Substack is breaking down traditional media gatekeepers | Hamish McKenzie
May 23, 2025“The whole Substack ecosystem is about more power because it’s based on those relationships between the publisher and their subscribers, or the video maker and their viewers,” says journalist and Subs...
Whitney Houston Hologram: The Zombification of an Icon | There Are No Girls on the Internet
May 16, 2025This episode is part of a feed swap with our friend podcast There Are No Girls On The Internet, hosted by Bridget Todd. She is an expert on tech culture, and on her show she has fun, thought provoking...
The food that fertilizes itself | Giles E.D. Oldroyd
May 09, 2025Could the key to a sustainable food system already be growing in the world’s farms? Plant scientist Giles E.D. Oldroyd explores how a special quirk of soybean plants allows them to naturally partner w...
Love, trust and marketing in the age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti
May 02, 2025As AI chatbots become more personal and proactive, the line between tool and companion is beginning to blur, with some users even professing love for their digital aides, says business consultant Amar...