People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google's artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found. The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are "helpful" and "reliable." But some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm. In one case that experts described as "really dangerous," Google wrongly advised people with pancreatic cancer to avoid high-fat foods. Experts said this was the exact opposite of what should be recommended, and may increase the risk of patients dying from the disease. In another "alarming" example, the company provided bogus information about crucial liver function tests, which could leave people with serious liver disease wrongly thinking they are healthy.
For a certain class of book-reading American -- the type with a taste for deeply reported stories about left-behind parts of the country -- [Beth Macy], the woman running for [the Appalachia-based 6th Congressional District of Virginia], is something of a household name. read more
Male Gen Z voters are breaking with President Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show ... read more
Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might solve the mystery. At a cursory glance, Mercury might well be the Solar System's dullest planet. Its barren surface has few notable features, there is no evidence of water in its past and the planet's wispy atmosphere is tenuous at best. The likelihood of life being found amidst its scotched craters is non-existent. Yet, look closer and Mercury is a fascinating, improbable world that is shrouded in mystery. Planetary scientists remain flummoxed by the very existence of the closest planet to our Sun. This peculiar planet is tiny, 20 times less massive than Earth and barely wider than Australia. Yet Mercury is the second densest planet in our Solar System after Earth due to a large, metallic core that accounts for the majority of its mass. read more
Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is "closer than ever" but has admitted that "thorny" questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida. read more
President Fraud was hoping that guy Jesus would really show up and turn West Palm Beach tap water into Trump wine. Cheap immigrant labor, good ROI. Best of all, Jesus is white, looks like Brad Pitt, or with a little imagination, like a 12-year-old daughter of his.
But that's a well-worn road in Trumplandia.