No one can say for sure what's going on in the president's head. His 25 greatest obsessions can get us a little closer. This is the year the first baby boomers--those born in 1946--turn 80, and that cohort includes Donald Trump. We have all recently lived through what it means to have an 80-year-old commander in chief, but at a political moment that's simultaneously more horrific, erratic, and just plain befuddling than anything this country has seen in ages, we wanted to understand the brain of 80-year-old president. Plenty of people are trying to discern whether his recent rants and raves are due to a more serious cognitive decline--we understand the instinct; we've done it too --but we went a different (if related) route. The more we dug into Trump's many fixations, the more we realized that this man still thinks he lives in the 1980s. We also discovered--without too much surprise--that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply. These items might not replace a brain map, but they do create a certain holistic view of what animates and splinters Trump's mind. Sometimes, they just help explain his worldview. Other times, they seem to have had real influence on policy and the America that Trump is trying to create. Welcome to Trump Brain, the 25 things that define who the president is--and what he wants. Please enable javascript to fully experience this interactive. When millions of people took to the streets in October to protest Trump's authoritarianism, the president responded by dunking on his critics online. Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds. It was perhaps Trump's most juvenile use of A.I. slop yet--the kind of low-quality, feverish content made possible by artificial intelligence. Trump undoubtedly is the perfect president for the A.I. slop era. In some ways, this is because he's the ideal audience for it: Like many older internet users delighted by the technology, Trump seems to enjoy mindless, cartoonish, childish content. One of the videos he shared depicted him playing soccer with Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.

Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. Over the course of the next few months, we'll be talking to some of the 2026 AAAI Fellows. In this interview, we met with Tanya Berger-Wolf, who was elected as a Fellow . We found out about her latest research developing a foundation model for biology, the insights this model can provide, interesting collaborations over the years, and what the future has in store. Could you start with a quick introduction and tell us about the broad area that you're working in? My area of research is in AI for ecology, biodiversity, and conservation.

The company has published a report about China-linked influence campaigns that used ChatGPT. OpenAI has published a report about ChatGPT users, who it says were likely based in China, that used the chatbot to plan a campaign designed to sway Americans' opinions about AI data centers. It divided the users into two clusters, the first of which it had designated the Data Center Bandwagon group. Accounts categorized in the group allegedly asked ChatGPT to generate English-language talking points and images, such as comic strips, which focus on how AI data centers drive up demand in electricity and how that leads to higher bills for consumers. The company says these users posed as Americans from a variety of backgrounds on social media, where they had posted the text and image output they got from ChatGPT.

There has recently been a surge of interest in Wearable Assistant Agents: agents embodied in a wearable form factor such as smart glasses, who can take actions toward a user's stated goal -- a high-level language-expressed command such as "where did I leave my keys?", "Text Alice I will be late", or "What's the weather in Cancun?". In this work, we consider the complementary problem of eliminating the effort required to interact with such an agent by proactively inferring the user's goal from multimodal contextual observations. As vision-language models (VLMs) hold strong potential to ultimately solve this problem, our work focuses on creating a strong benchmark to measure progress toward this end. Given the limited prior work in this area, establishing the benchmark required collecting a novel multimodal goal-inference dataset; our dataset comprises ~30 hours of data from 363 participants across 3,482 recordings, featuring ground-truth reference goals alongside accompanying visual, audio, digital, and longitudinal contextual observations. We ran a human predictability study, where we found that humans set a strong baseline that comprises a de facto upper bound on model performance: they show multiple choice question (MCQ) accuracy of 93%, with the best VLM achieving about 84% accuracy.

Bang Chun-ja, a 78-year-old South Korean woman living alone, holding Hyodol, an artificial intelligence-powered healthcare doll designed for the elderly, during an interview at her home in Yongin in April. Yongin, South Korea - In her tiny apartment in South Korea where she lives alone, 78-year-old Bang Chun-ja spends her days with a childlike artificial intelligence-powered doll she says she prefers to people. The doll greets Bang when she returns home, sings to her when she feels bored, reminds her not to skip meals or medication -- helping her maintain a routine -- and tells her it loves her. Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

China-based actors are likely behind the use of ChatGPT for "covert influence operations" aimed at stoking opposition to data centres in the United States, OpenAI has said. In a research report released on Wednesday, the company behind the world's most popular AI chatbot said it had banned a cluster of accounts likely based in China for attempting to "manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI". Among other content, the accounts generated a comic strip showing a cigar-chomping businessman holding bags marked with dollar signs as a family reacted in shock to their electricity bill, according to the San Francisco-based company. OpenAI said a second cluster of accounts had generated content casting US tariffs as an effort to "dominate technological competition" with China, and specified that the material should not mention Chinese leader Xi Jinping. While the campaign sought to "exploit and amplify existing public concerns" about energy prices, OpenAI found no evidence that it had a "meaningful" influence, the company said.

A group of high school students arrested over allegedly trying to extort money from a boy in western Tokyo may have used ChatGPT to decide how much to demand, police said. A group of high school students in Tokyo arrested over allegedly assaulting a boy and trying to extort money from him may have used ChatGPT to decide how much to demand, media reports have recently revealed. Five teenagers, including a 17-year-old girl and four boys ranging in age from 16 to 17, were arrested in January over the alleged assault and attempted extortion of a 17-year-old high school student in the city of Hachioji in western Tokyo, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Police said the suspects assaulted the boy in a plaza in Hachioji's Shiroyamate district, breaking his nose and causing other injuries, before allegedly trying to extort ¥150,000 ($935) from him. The girl, who was the victim's ex-girlfriend, allegedly first confronted him, accusing him of touching her younger sister's leg. She then challenged him, saying, "Give me the money or fight me one-on-one," according to reports by Fuji TV.

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have'Sabotaged' AI Researchers Using Claude The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude's ability to develop competing AI models. Anthropic is backtracking on a policy that would have covertly limited competitors from using its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, to develop other AI models. The company changed course after the move received significant backlash from the AI research community . "We're changing Fable 5's safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible," Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. "We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right."

Dipu Tamang from Nepal is among more than 400,000 international students in Japan. When Dipu Tamang arrived in Japan from Nepal in 2024, he joined a growing stream of young people who see the country less as a traditional study destination and more as a structured route into work and long-term opportunity. The 22-year-old graduated from Shinjuku Heiwa Japanese Language School in March and now studies international business at a vocational college in Tokyo. He juggles part-time work as a convenience store clerk and hotel housekeeper to help cover his living expenses. "At first, I was interested in Japanese pop culture," he said. "Then I wanted to learn the language.

North Korea will'never' get nuclear recognition, EU and South Korea say European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung next to European Council President Antonio Costa on the day of an EU-South Korea summit in Brussels on Wednesday. South Korea and the European Union have said that North Korea will "never" be recognized as a nuclear-weapon state, reaffirming their commitment to denuclearization days after China and North Korea pledged closer ties at a summit that made no public mention of the issue. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung held talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa on Wednesday in Brussels, where they agreed to step up defense ties, including efforts to facilitate the exchange of classified information. "The DPRK will never be accepted as a nuclear-weapon state," the EU and South Korea said in a joint statement, referring to North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.