Author: Shane Glass
Shane Glass
Shane covers AI developments with a focus on what's real, what's hype, and what actually changes how we work.
Child monitoring apps scanned 11B messages in 2025. A $1.57B market is growing fast, but surveillance carries real costs for kids.
OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices to counter Chinese AI rivals, Flock adds surveillance rules with gaps, and a researcher fights to map children’s cells.
Bioinformatician Deanne Taylor helped win a $38.5M NIH grant to build the first gene expression database for healthy children. The gap had existed for decades.
A State Department disinformation office was shut down April 16, 2025, after being labeled part of the “censorship-industrial complex.” The fallout is reshaping U.S. policy and the internet.
Google restructures DeepMind leadership, shifts AI strategy toward agentic systems, as Jeff Dean departs after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop.
A Texas A&M team preserved supercooled pig kidneys at −4°C for days. Organ preservation research is advancing on multiple fronts simultaneously.
ESHRE calls for a Europe-wide sperm donor limit after cases of 550+ siblings and a cancer-linked donor who fathered 197 children across the continent.
France’s record June heat forced a nuclear reactor offline and triggered output cuts across EDF’s fleet, exposing how rising temperatures are quietly eroding Europe’s power supply.
Anthropic’s Fable model was banned by the US government days after release. The fallout is reshaping AI markets, European strategy, and cybersecurity.
Startup Subquadratic claims to have cut LLM compute costs dramatically, while BCI trials scale up and Casey Harrell becomes the first power user of a brain implant.