The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
What began as a relatively niche conspiracy theory from the far right was able to—and continues to—influence a wide range...
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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
“The Biden administration may have abandoned plans to create a ‘Disinformation Board,’ but a more insidious ‘Censorship Complex’ already exists...
The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meta has become the latest firm...
Puzzle Corner | MIT Technology Review
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky,...
The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US is considering...
NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, and its partners across the world, are chiefly worried about asteroids 460 feet long and...
The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
It was a surprise, then, when last week the Federal Trade Commission issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of...
The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
1 It looks like Iran is conducting cyberattacks on US water systemsThat’s according to preliminary investigations on hacks in at...
Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
“We reward them on the basis of what looks good to us, and that means that we inadvertently incentivize the...
The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Ceres could also apply to Montana’s ETRB to sell its experimental treatment to Brody’s parents via a clinic in the...
Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward
Even if the FDA were to provide some kind of assurance, it wouldn’t necessarily protect biotech companies in the long...
The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
“When you and I are talking, I can tell which words are coming out of my mouth because I can...
How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
What the team found, however, was that the flow actually increased in the area where they drilled the new well....
The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised another customerAn...
The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The...
The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off
Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems...
Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix
“Except for our two team leads, my entire team just applied to SK Hynix,” Lee says, referring to a job...
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.
OpenAI has said the event was unprecedented—and in many ways it was. This was the first time outside of a...
