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Last updated Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 PM
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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs D…
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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it
Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy p…
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What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and…
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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for…
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What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?
AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.
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AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent…
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Responsible AI for Higher Education
This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do…
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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory av…
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Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms
AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates. But a public backlash is gaining momentum. Privacy concerns abound, encompassing t…
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The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the wor…
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Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?
Existential fears about AI have once again reared their head - here's what you need to know.
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Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses
Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee. Or the AI radio DJ that said its c…
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Trump downplays warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China
The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen".
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Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like
While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.
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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
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Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
The call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.
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Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Rev…
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UK government rejects 'kill switch' idea for dangerous AI
The Cabinet Office, which leads on AI safety, says the UK "cannot simply turn AI off".
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Does this AI comic make you laugh?
Comedian Garrett Millerick has created an AI avatar based on his own material. Is it any good?
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Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons
The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.
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AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own t…
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China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”
In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my…
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AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code
AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed.…
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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the w…
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Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process.…
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New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box
Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people w…
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AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answer…
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What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. Th…
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This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathe…
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Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI
About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical clues are spread across metrol…
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From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in…
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AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet
Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as…
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Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!
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Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—togeth…
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AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resourc…
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IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids
Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record sur…
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Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?
This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence…
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Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of o…
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Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to?
Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multip…
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Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that pr…
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AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is inc…
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Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare
An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-ag…
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