TechCrunch

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: It’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses. The ...
The Boston Globe

What Harvard (and the rest of higher ed) still needs to do to fix itself

Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard University. His most recent book is “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows …: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday ...
TechCrunch

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which ...
TechCrunch

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable ...
MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect ...
The Harvard Crimson

Reflections on Half a Century of Progress

Steven A. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology. The year 2026 may seem like a dark time to graduate. The media bombard us with reminders that we are living in an era of war, ...
Variety

Emerald Fennell ‘Not Involved in Any Way’ in ‘Basic Instinct’ Reboot, Contradicting Writer Joe Eszterhas Claims

Director Emerald Fennell won’t be dusting off the ice pick. The “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn” filmmaker loves to push the envelope and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas insisted that her attraction ...
The Daily Beast

MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hangs With One of Epstein’s ‘Pals’

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The embattled editor hosted one of the pervert’s enablers to headline a debate on faith. Getty Images CBS News editor Bari Weiss has hosted an event featuring ...
Yahoo

The Universal Language of Instinct: Social Mammals Share a Secret Code

Social mammals across multiple species appear to follow universal behavioral codes that ensure their daily survival. Data from accelerometers reveals movement timelines that create clear constraints ...
Scientific American magazine

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the thousands of images was one video clip, the ...
The Boston Globe

Release of emails renews interest in Harvard professor Steven Pinker’s link to Jeffrey Epstein

The recent release of thousands of emails that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exchanged with associates has renewed interest in the disgraced financier’s connection to star Harvard University ...