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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...

The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

But now, scientists have come up with a device that allows organs to be cooled to -4 °C (25 °F)...

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

2 Why the OpenAI hack is the scariest AI mishap yetAI’s capabilities seem to be starting to outpace our current...

The Download: NASA’s new space telescope and OpenAI’s autonomous hacker

This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week...

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk discreetly bought...