The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the...
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A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
The legislation, the Reimagining Safety Act, was developed in consultation with community groups and local and state representatives. The advocacy...
The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
“The hardware is improving, but the country’s weak understanding of consent gives an invisible camera far more room to cause...
Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25...
The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype, with companies making breathless claims about hacking, mathematical breakthroughs, and the...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing...
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many...
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers...
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
In response to a list of questions, an Anduril spokesperson replied that once a tower is delivered, it is operated...
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost. It was early afternoon on Sept....
The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
— Will Douglas Heaven What steps can be taken now and in the near future to ensure that AI is...
The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
“We’ve got a constant back and forth,” says Magnus. “We have to build better surveillance and screening tools, AI is...
The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators
A team at Stanford has revealed the effort to mix brain tissues of distant species this week. They previously showed...
Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech
Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy demands of open-source...
Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells
The effort to mix the brain tissues of distant species is being reported today in the journal Nature by a...
Building the materials foundation for AI
The way I try to describe it, think of a pyramid, I call it the performance pyramid. You have commodity...
The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility...
