In the News
for the week of January 26, 2026
Nature PodcastHow your brain chemistry rewards hard work
Why going the extra mile might make you feel good. Neir Eshel, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, discusses recently published findings on this episode of the Nature podcast.
TIMEHere's Why You Shouldn't Let AI Run Your Social Life
People increasingly consult LLMs for their most personal moments. That's not always a good thing. Nina Vasan, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, provides comment.
Stanford HAIAI Can’t Do Physics Well – And That’s a Roadblock to Autonomy
QuantiPhy is a new benchmark and training framework that evaluates whether AI can numerically reason about physical properties in video images. QuantiPhy reveals that today’s models struggle with basic estimates of size, speed, and distance but offers a way forward. Ehsan Adeli, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Biomedical Data Science, provides comment.