Spending as little as 10 minutes with an AI tool may chip away at a person’s willingness to grind through tough work, according to a newly published study. A team of researchers carried out several experiments and found that people lost focus and gave up more easily on demanding tasks soon after turning to artificial intelligence for help. The team calls the result a striking one. They say it matches what plenty of people already suspect: leaning on AI slowly wears down our mental sharpness. When answers arrive within seconds, working things out on your own starts to feel painfully slow. That robs people of what the researchers call productive struggle, the kind of effort that actually helps us improve. Scam attempts hit 84% of Filipino adults, losses reach Php121.8 billion Artificial Intelligence designs viruses that kill bacteria more effectively Brian Christian of the University of California, Berkeley, who took part in the work, put it this way. These...
Meta launched two new AI models: Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full . The company calls them its most capable models so far. As expected, these models are built for agentic tasks. This means they can handle multi-step jobs, adjust when problems come up, and keep working toward a goal over time. They were trained at Meta’s Prometheus data center. Two new features power them. Active Memory lets the models recall important details across conversations. Active Focus helps them push through obstacles, recover from errors, and adapt to new information. They can also ask users for clarification before taking major actions. The models handle specialized work in law, finance, and health. For coding, they can track requirements, edit multiple parts of a codebase, and test their own work. On safety, Meta said the models guard private information, refuse harmful requests, and resist adversarial instructions. The company claims its strongest safeguards yet against chemical,...