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Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
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Kursiv.media — AI (Google News)
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Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier."
TechCrunch — AI
General1 min
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
General1 min
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are…
The Verge — AI
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running…
The Verge — AI
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
Designing long-travel axes: When rack and pinion outperforms ball screws and linear motors
Sponsored by GAM. A gearbox, pinion, and rack system provide the 7th axis, or lateral movement, for an articulated robot. (Image: GAM.) Pull a tape measure out a few inches and the blade is rigid. Keep pulling and at some point it starts to flex and wobble, then eventually…
The Robot Report
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret…
Ars Technica — AI
Robotics investments reach $4.9B in August 2026
Robotics companies raised $4.87 billion in disclosed funding and other capital in August 2026, according to 162 financial transactions tracked by The Robot Report. The overall funding total is much higher as many of the funding totals are not made public. China accounted for the…
The Robot Report
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and…
The Verge — AI
General1 min
AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income…
The Verge — AI
Arm Total Design for Physical AI brings more than 80 developers together
Autonomous vehicles and robotics are tackling similar challenges across perception, AI, real-time control, safety, and efficient computing. | Source: Arm Arm Holdings PLC recently released Arm Total Design for Physical AI, a program that brings together more than 80 companies…
The Robot Report
The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators
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. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer…
MIT Technology Review
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Менеджер Жанибека Алимханулы Эгис Климас обратился к чемпиону мира WBO во втором среднем весе Хамзе Ширазу после завершения промоутерских торгов за право организации их потенциального боя. Климас заявил, что поединок Алимханулы и Шираза может стать одним из лучших боев года, и…
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Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech
Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following. The team worked on the newest edition of the list for months, and the final slate includes nine…
MIT Technology Review
Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers, AI wearable, and robotics companies
TechCrunch — AI
General1 min
Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent. Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register to save up to $200.
TechCrunch — AI
General1 min
Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses
Since Specs' debut earlier this year, Snap has clearly been looking for an opportunity to explain why the smart glasses deserve to exist.
TechCrunch — AI
Infrastructure1 min
Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers
In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about where the technology is headed.
TechCrunch — AI
Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac
Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching…
The Verge — AI
OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior
The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.
TechCrunch — AI
General1 min
Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright opposed to oversight.
Wired — Artificial Intelligence
General1 min
The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale…
The Verge — AI
Research1 min
The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger
E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate…
The Verge — AI
OLogic to share how robots can learn from human demonstrations at RoboBusiness
Some of the robots OLogic has helped to build, Bear Robotics’ AMR, Locus Robotics’ AMR, Zoetic’s KiKi social robot, Simbe Robotics’ Tally, and Misty Robotics’ personal robot. | Source: OLogic Egocentric robot learning is emerging as a powerful approach for developing more…
The Robot Report
General1 min
After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?
TechCrunch — AI