Ciencia y Tecnología

OpenAI plans to introduce advertising within ChatGPT, offering personalized promotions based on user interactions. The move marks a significant shift in how conversational AI platforms may generate revenue and interact with their users.The announcement signals a new phase for ChatGPT, which has grown rapidly as a popular tool for answering questions, assisting with work, and generating content. While OpenAI has historically relied on subscription revenue from services like ChatGPT Plus, the introduction of ads represents a broader strategy to monetize the free-tier experience.How ads will work within ChatGPTAccording to OpenAI, ads will be contextually relevant, meaning the system may show…

Health anxiety, defined as an excessive fear of having or developing a serious medical condition, appears in many forms and intensities, and people often turn to the internet, social media, and symptom-checking apps as their main health information sources. Although easily accessible details can support and inform patients, the same abundance of information can intensify and prolong their worries. This article describes how and why information frequently heightens health anxiety, provides illustrative examples and data-supported trends, and outlines practical approaches for both individuals and clinicians.What is health anxiety and cyberchondria?Health anxiety ranges from occasional worry to persistent, distressing preoccupation that…

Forgetting someone’s name at an inconvenient moment is something almost everyone experiences. Proper names behave unlike ordinary words: they tend to vanish even when familiar nouns and general knowledge stay within reach. Explaining this phenomenon involves examining how the brain stores and retrieves names, how attention and emotion influence their encoding, and how factors such as age, stress, and linguistic background reshape the way retrieval functions.What makes proper names specialProper names are labels with low semantic redundancy. Unlike the word “dog,” which connects to traits, actions, and contexts, a name like “Sarah” has few intrinsic clues linking it to meaning.…

Apple’s decision to rely on Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence marks a pivotal shift in how the company plans to deliver advanced AI features to millions of users worldwide. Rather than waiting to perfect its own large-scale model, Apple is prioritizing speed, reliability, and user experience as it prepares a long-anticipated upgrade to Siri.Apple confirmed that it will integrate Google’s Gemini AI model into the next generation of Siri, scheduled to arrive later this year. The announcement, made jointly by both companies, highlights a multi-year agreement that allows Apple to use Gemini alongside Google’s cloud infrastructure to support new artificial intelligence…

Artificial intelligence shifted from a hopeful breakthrough to an urgent global flashpoint in 2025, rapidly transforming economies, politics and everyday life far faster than most expected, turning a burst of tech acceleration into a worldwide debate over power, productivity and accountability.How AI reshaped the global landscape in 2025 and what lies aheadThe year 2025 will be remembered as the point when artificial intelligence shifted from being viewed as a distant disruptor to becoming an unavoidable force shaping everyday reality, marking a decisive move from experimentation toward broad systemic influence as governments, companies and citizens were compelled to examine not only…

New images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS nearing Earth have been captured by astronomersNew insights into comet 3I/ATLAS highlight its distinctive composition and active tails as it approaches its nearest point to Earth this month. The interstellar traveler, hailing from outside our solar system, has captivated scientists' attention since it was first identified in July 2025.Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected traveling through our solar system, making every observation crucial for understanding its trajectory, composition, and behavior. Both the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission have captured detailed…