Browsing: Generative

Journalists are mnemonically dispossessed in the age of large language models. To accept News Corp CEO Robert Thomson’s 2026 redefinition of journalism as an ‘input’ alongside semiconductors and datacentres is to deny the human provenance of what it means to make and to consume news. Licensing deals now being signed between major press groups and…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a public consultation on one of the most challenging questions facing modern healthcare technology: how should regulators oversee medical devices powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? The agency is accepting comments until October 19, 2026, as it considers new approaches to risk assessment, premarket review, and…

As generative AI tools are increasingly adopted in design education, understanding how AI learning assistants foster perceived learning support (PLS) among design students has become a pressing concern. Drawing on Social Support Theory, the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) framework, Parasocial Relationship Theory, and the Stimulus–Organism–Response (SOR) model, this study examines how AI anthropomorphism and…