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TODAY IN AI
Click here to see Regent Craft's Seaglider lift off. Photo: Regent Craft
Regent Craft completed the first crewed flight of its Viceroy Seaglider, a 12-passenger electric vessel that floats, rises onto hydrofoils, then flies just above the water on ground effect. Two captains held it about 33 feet up for roughly 30 seconds over Narragansett Bay, and Regent says it will eventually fly up to 180 mph for 180 miles on coastal routes. The liftoff footage is worth the click.
Researchers report that AI models analyzing vocal features and the flow of speech can distinguish people with schizophrenia from healthy controls with up to 87% accuracy. With Americans facing an average 18-month wait for a psychotic-disorder diagnosis, earlier detection could matter, though the technique is not ready for clinics.
Scientists published the most detailed biological study ever done on a supercentenarian. Maria Branyas, who lived past 117, showed classic signs of aging in her immune system and chromosomes alongside low inflammation, protective genes and a biological age younger than her years, a contradiction that may hold clues for age-related blood cancers.
Sceye flew an unmanned stratospheric balloon from New Mexico to Japan and back over 30 days, spending a week delivering mobile broadband, voice calls and video streaming to ordinary phones in partnership with SoftBank. It is a proof of concept for stratospheric infrastructure as a cheaper alternative to satellites.
The FDA approved Orzeyful, a pill that mimics orexin, the brain chemical missing in type 1 narcolepsy. In late-stage trials patients stayed awake for more than 20 minutes in controlled tests, up from four to five minutes before treatment, a result more than two decades in the making.
Scientists combined the toxin-blocking proteins rattlesnakes use to protect themselves from their own venom into a mixture roughly ten times more potent than current commercial antivenom in lab tests. It also neutralized venom from other viper species, pointing toward cheaper antivenoms made without horses or sheep. And yes, the real-life SpongeBob and Patrick spotted a mile down in the Atlantic are a documented NOAA find.
TUTORIAL
Most science posts that go viral are a real study with the caveats sanded off; this takes about five minutes and catches most of them.
Find the original source. Scroll the post for a link, or search the study's key phrase plus the journal or university name. If there is no source anywhere, that is already your answer.
Open ChatGPT (Claude or Gemini work the same way) and paste the prompt below. Fill in the claim exactly as you saw it and paste the study abstract, press release or link.
Act as a careful science fact-checker. I will paste a claim I saw online and, where I have it, the original study or article it came from.
1. Restate the claim in one sentence.
2. Say what the source actually found, including sample size, study type (observational, randomized trial, animal, lab) and who funded it.
3. List every way the online claim overstates, oversimplifies or misreads the source.
4. Give a verdict: Supported, Partly supported, Misleading or Unsupported, with one sentence of reasoning.
5. Suggest a one-line accurate version I could share instead.
If you cannot verify something, say so rather than guessing.
Claim: [PASTE THE POST OR HEADLINE]
Source: [PASTE THE STUDY LINK OR TEXT, OR WRITE UNKNOWN]
Read the verdict, then check the one thing the model cannot: whether the source is real. Click the link, confirm the journal and date, and make sure the numbers it quotes appear in the text.
If the claim is about a health benefit, ask a follow-up: was this a randomized trial or an observational link, and how big was the effect in absolute terms? Most coffee, wine and chocolate headlines fall apart here.
Share the one-line accurate version instead of the original post. Keeping the source link in your caption saves the next person the same work.
A model summarizes what you give it; if you paste a press release instead of the paper, you get the press release's framing. When it matters, read the abstract yourself.
TOOLS WORTH TRYING
4 tools catching our attention this week.
Vanta: Sponsored. Compliance automation that now connects to Codex, Claude and Cursor, so audit evidence gets collected inside the tools your team already uses. Its free session walks through the setup; expect the platform itself to be priced for companies, not solo builders.
Flowtica Scribe: An AI recorder built into a working pen that records, transcribes and creates searchable summaries while you write on paper. Handy for meetings and lectures where a laptop feels rude; check local rules on recording consent.
Rokid AR Spatial: Glasses that turn any room into a private 300-inch screen, run on Android, take voice commands and float up to three apps in view. Great for travel work, though comfort over a full day is the thing to test before buying.
Apple Watch Series 12: Apple's biggest health-sensor upgrade in years checks your heart more often and uses that data to tell you how ready your body is to train or recover. Most useful if you already follow a training plan; casual users will mostly notice the readiness score.