🧠 Study finds AI users accept wrong answers 73% of the time

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💥 Iran just took a chunk of AWS offline

🏥 AI cuts MRI scan time from 23 to 9 minutes

🤖 Japan is automating its economy out of desperation

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University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 1,372 people using a modified AI that gave wrong answers half the time. Participants still accepted the faulty reasoning 73% of the time, overruling it only 19.7% of the time.

The researchers call this "cognitive surrender," a step beyond normal tool-assisted thinking where users skip internal verification entirely. Confident, fluent AI output was the biggest trigger for switching off critical thinking.

Incentives helped: adding small payments for correct answers raised the rate of catching AI errors by 19 points. A 30-second time limit cut it by 12. Turns out scrutiny is a luxury that requires both motivation and time.

LinkedIn injects a hidden JavaScript file into user sessions that checks for 6,236 browser extensions by probing each one's file resources, then ties the results to real user profiles linked to names, employers, and job roles.

The script also collects CPU count, RAM, screen resolution, battery status, timezone, and audio data. The extension list has grown from 2,000 in 2025 to 6,236 now, suggesting active and ongoing development.

LinkedIn says the scanning protects the platform. The researcher who published the report had their account banned for scraping. Both things can be true, and LinkedIn is still building a detailed map of what software your company uses.

IRGC missile strikes hit AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai, pushing multiple compute zones to "hard down" status. Amazon is migrating affected workloads and says it has no timeline for restoring normal operations.

AWS runs three compute zones per Middle East site. Both locations now have a mix of fully down and impaired zones, with an internal memo warning services should scale to the minimum footprint needed to support customer migration.

AWS is the loudest disruption so far, but Iran has also struck an Oracle data center and threatened Nvidia and Microsoft. The longer this runs, the more the war starts to look like a supply chain crisis with missiles.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam deployed AI software that processes raw MRI scan data into images faster, cutting average scan time from 23 minutes to 9 minutes for cancer patients.

The shorter scans also improve image quality. Patients struggle to hold still for 23 minutes, and internal movement from breathing and digestion blurs results. Less time in the tube means sharper images.

The hospital now fits 18 more scans per week without extending into evenings or weekends. Staff get more breaks, patients get more time per visit. A 14-minute reduction turns out to fix several problems at once.

Japan's working-age population is down to 59.6% of the total and shrinking, pushing companies to deploy AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and infrastructure just to keep operations running.

The government has committed $6.3B to physical AI and robotics, targeting a 30% share of the global market by 2040, building on Japanese manufacturers already holding roughly 70% of global industrial robotics market share as of 2022.

Japan leads in robot hardware and precision components, but the U.S. and China are moving faster on full-stack systems. The country's biggest competitive threat may not be labor, but software.

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