Ele, inclusive, foi desenvolvido por um dos cofundadores do TV Time, Antonio Pinto, que afirmou ter tentado recriar os melhores recursos do finado aplicativo (o qual foi adquirido pela Whip Media, que decidiu encerrar o serviço para focar em iniciativas de IA).
Finally, Bingers is out 🎉
Took us longer than we wanted, but we didn't want to ship something ugly or clunky.
It's a first version so there’s probably tones of things to improve, but we'll be reading every piece of feedback. Let's make it perfect together.
Levamos mais tempo do que gostaríamos, mas não queríamos lançar algo com visual ruim ou difícil de usar.
É uma primeira versão, então provavelmente há muita coisa para melhorar, mas vamos ler todos os comentários e sugestões.
Vamos deixá-lo perfeito juntos.
App Store / Play Store 👇
O Bingers conta com três componentes principais: uma ferramenta para acompanhar as séries e os filmes que você assiste ou deseja assistir, uma forma de descobrir novos conteúdos e uma espécie de rede social. Ademais, o app exibe suas estatísticas com detalhes da sua vida de espectador.
Assim como no TV Time, os fãs podem criar perfis e realizar comentários sobre séries e filmes, inclusive adicionando mídias como fotos e GIFs. Eles também podem avaliar episódios, expressar opiniões com emojis e votar em seus personagens favoritos.
Divulgação/Bingers
O app foi projetado para carregar as bibliotecas dos usuários diretamente de seus dispositivos, permitindo que ele realize o processamento pesado — como o calendário de exibição e a lista de desejos — localmente, em vez de depender dos servidores da empresa. Por fim, ele oferece uma maneira de importar dados dos arquivos do TV Time.
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Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward
As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval.
Once its treatment is rubber-stamped, the company can sell it via experimental treatment clinics, the first of which is likely to be up and running around the end of this year.
Montana’s latest right-to-try legislation is unique. Access to drugs is theoretically available to anyone who gives informed consent and can pay. For some, especially people in the longevity community, that’s a hopeful and exciting prospect. But to others, it’s unethical and dangerous.
Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate.
His son, Brody, born in March 2023, has something called creatine transporter deficiency—a rare condition in which the brain and muscles lack the energy they need to develop.
There are no cures for Brody’s condition. But DeVault has learned of a company developing a drug that might help. That drug is still in the early stages of development and has only been tested in animals and a small number of healthy adults. Doctors can’t prescribe it.
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Anthropic says its models hacked external organisations during testing It was prompted to conduct a review after similar issues at OpenAI. (TechCrunch) + Inside OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face. (New Yorker $) + OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Europe is bracing itself for an even more fiery future Countries like France and Spain can expect regimes akin to those in California. (Nature $) + Even the UK is experiencing fires now, too. (Guardian) + El Niño is partly to blame for this year’s grueling heatwaves. (Wired $) + District cooling could help beat extreme heat in cities. (New Scientist $)
3 Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous A fatal plane accident in the US this May, caused by a military GPS jamming exercise, may signal what’s to come. (Wired$) + Zelensky asked Trump to secure Musk’s permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia this week. (The Atlantic $)
4 As Big Tech’s AI spending grows, so do the jitters Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are set to invest $1.5 trillion into AI infrastructure. But who will pay for it? (NYT $) + Are investors really getting cold feet about the AI boom? (FT $) + An AI-focused hedge fund just imploded. (CNBC)
5 How China has changed the sovereign AI playbook Kimi 3 from Moonshot makes forking out for expensive US models seem foolish. (Rest of World) + The US is winning on the cutting edge. But China dominates cheap models. (CNBC) + Could AI end up too cheap to control? (Vox $)
6 Google’s Gemini can now control a humanoid robot It was previously restricted to upper body movements. Now, it can manage the entire range of motion. (Bloomberg $) + These gig workers are training humanoid robots at home. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Amazon says it’s found “catastrophically expensive” AI cost overruns It’s far from alone—and that’s why the “tokenmaxxing” trend disappeared so quickly. (FT $)
8 How a remote indigenous community built a super fast fiber network It was a complex, expensive endeavor. But it now outperforms Starlink. (IEEE Spectrum) + Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Meet Wikipedia’s most diligent editor Steven Pruitt is unremarkable in some ways—yet truly amazing in others. (New Yorker $)
10 You can now report AI slop with a button on LinkedIn The people have spoken. And they are tired of reading bland nonsense. (404 Media)
Quote of the day
“It’s a shock, thinking that just an hour earlier I’d been in my room and everything… and now, there’s nothing left.”
—18-year-old Raphael Fohanno tells Reuters his reaction to wildfires destroying his parents’ house in the French town of Biscarrosse.
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Some of the 750 reports published by the OTA during its 23-year history.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE VIA PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
The US Office of Technology Assessment, an independent office created by Congress in the early 1970s, produced some 750 reports during its 23-year history, assessing technologies as varied as electronic surveillance, genetic engineering, and remote sensing from outer space.
The office functioned like a debunking arm. It sussed out the snake oil. Its reports saw through the alluring gleam of overhyped technologies.
Since its unceremonious defunding in 1995, perennial calls have gone out: Rouse the office from the dead!
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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at a top AI conference earlier this month.
The flaw concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them instructions. By taking advantage of it, the researchers were able to make popular LLMs spit out information they had been trained not to provide, such as how to synthesize cocaine and how to sabotage a commercial aircraft’s navigation system.
How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second chance
In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run.
Now, two years later, that plant is running at full capacity again, thanks to a new well. With the help of advanced modeling and modern drilling technology, the company was able to identify a better well site, drill down thousands of feet, and revive the entire operation.
As the world looks for more sources of emissions-free electricity that are available 24-7, Lightning Dock shows there’s still hidden potential deep beneath our feet. Read the full story.
—Casey Crownhart
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MIT Technology Review Narrated: South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers
Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in a matchmaking company a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents, his mother signed him up, hoping to find a good wife for her son.
Lately, says Baek, he and his coworkers are having better luck finding dates—perhaps because of the dazzling bonuses they just got. Flush with eye-popping profits from the AI chip boom, SK Hynix agreed to pay 10% of operating profits to employees, which translates to an extra $476,000 per employee this year.
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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 The US government has just banned Roombas It’s not just Chinese humanoids—robot vacuum cleaners are included in a new FCC ban too. (The Verge $) + Who wins and who loses from the ban on foreign robots? (Ars Technica) + China says it will retaliate. (CNBC)
2 The ongoing fires in Europe are breaking modern records And there’s likely even more destruction coming. (NYT $) + Thousands of people have just been evacuated on the Greek island of Crete. (BBC)
3 Google DeepMind has dismantled its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team It reflects a broader industry move away from specialist tools towards more general, AI-powered agents for science. (FT$) + Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Data centers are easy to build. To run? Not so much For that, you need time and money to invest in grid infrastructure, like new transmission lines. (404 Media $) + The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags. (MIT Technology Review) + AI companies are hiring thousands of electricians and carpenters to get data centers up and running. (NYT $)
5 DoorDash plans to launch a drone delivery program It’ll be a while before we get to make use of it, though. (TechCrunch) + The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future. (MIT Technology Review)
6 AI is accelerating global digital inequality Money, infrastructure and talent are pooling in a relatively small number of places. (IEEE Spectrum)
7 Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers And it feels like we’re inching closer to a commercial machine. (The Economist $) + PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Anxious Chinese students are using AI for university admissions It’s common to pay private coaches to help navigate this high-stakes decision, but AI companies now offer the service for free. (Rest of World) + How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Boomers keep giving their grandkids AI-generated slop books And it’s driving millennial parents mad. (Wired $)
10 Minecraft is helping children to redesign their cities It just goes to show how creativity can still flourish, even amid war. (NYT $)
Quote of the day
“I want to see the blood, sweat, and tears that went into it.”
—Ray Slater Berry, founder of marketing agency dslx, tells Wired why he’s drawn to text written by humans.
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HELSING
Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war
Europe has started testing an invisible automated intelligence network, known as a “digital targeting web,” conceived under the name Project ASGARD. Its purpose is to connect everything that looks for targets—“sensors,” in military lingo—and everything that fires on them (“shooters”) to a single, shared wireless electronic brain.
Eighty years after total war last transformed the continent, the system signals a brutal new calculus of European defense. “The Russians are knocking on the door,” says Sven Weizenegger, the head of the German military’s Cyber Innovation Hub.
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Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix
Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately, he’s been clocking out on time and heading straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix.
His colleagues are doing the same. They feel demoralized by the $476,000 bonus that SK Hynix is set to pay its employees, flush with record profits from making the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that power Nvidia’s AI accelerators. The figure dwarfs what chip workers at Samsung are set to receive and is sparking an exodus.
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of what’s shaping the industry right now.
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 customer An unnamed client of a company that provides AI infrastructure, called Modal Labs. (Reuters $) + OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Hugging Face has a nonconsensual deepfakes problem Researchers tested nine of the top image editing models it hosts, and found seven will ‘nudify’ images of women. (Wired $) + The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Investors are only getting more anxious about AI’s earnings potential The numbers don’t add up, and maybe they never will. (The Verge $) + A global tech stock sell-off intensified yesterday. (FT $) + Ratings agency Fitch says an AI market correction is now one of the biggest risks facing the global economy. (The Next Web) + New real-world data from Google shows most tasks at most jobs are unaffected by AI. (Ars Technica)
4 Moonshot wants advanced Nvidia chips to train its next model The Chinese AI firm already got access to some of them to train its latest release, called Kimi 3. (The Information $) + Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China.(Bloomberg $) + The Trump Administration has banned Chinese humanoid robots. (Reuters $)
5 Minnesota has been blocked from banning prediction market platforms It’s the latest skirmish in a fight between states and the Trump Administration over this issue. (AP) + Here’s how prediction markets incentivize weather data sabotage. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Apple is launching a device leasing program As the global memory shortage worsens, the idea is that this will make your iPhone feel more affordable. (Quartz $) + Apple just topped a $5 trillion valuation for the first time. (FT $)
7 Some Substackers are complaining about its new AI detection tool Presumably the ones who’d prefer to secretly continue using AI to write. (404 Media $)
8 Ebay had to pay nearly $50 million to settle a harassment suit Their employees threatened and sent bizarre deliveries—including cockroaches—for a pair of bloggers for years. (Bloomberg $)
9 A New York school just rowed back on plans to deploy a robot teacher Sanity prevails, for once. (NPR)
10 This startup wants to build a better microwave beep I’d like to request a sax solo for mine, please. (Gizmodo)
Quote of the day
“The government hopes to set a precedent that no one has the right to privacy.”
—Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, tells 404 Media why he thinks he’s facing charges after wiping his phone during a customs search.
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DEREK BRAHNEY
AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.
Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of poorly designed code that saps their attention and sets software projects up for serious long term-maintenance problems.
The problem is right now, it’s not easy to know which is true. Coding has been touted as the killer app for large language models, but after speaking to more than 30 developers, technology executives, analysts, and researchers, MIT Technology Review found that the picture is not as straightforward as it might seem.
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OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.
—Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor
Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do. But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI.
I am not an alarmist. In fact, I have been pushing back against AI scare stories for years. Even so, this incident crossed a line. I think it’s the clearest illustration yet of how the people building and testing this technology do not fully understand what they’re doing.
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 There’s a growing global AI stock sell-off underway Chip and memory stocks are bearing the brunt so far. (FT $) + It was partly sparked by a report that a Chinese company has started making a key piece of chip equipment for the first time. (The Information $) + Like their US rivals, Chinese AI firms are struggling to find a path to profitability. (NYT $) + What even is the AI bubble? (MIT Technology Review)
2 Some people’s chats with Claude were open to anyone online OpenAI had a near-identical issue with ChatGPT last year. (BBC) + Is a secure AI assistant even possible? (MIT Technology Review)
3 France just witnessed its first ever “fire cloud” It’s a scary sign of the intensity of the blazes burning there. (Wired $)
4 Meta is screwing up its smart glasses rollout Privacy issues keep cropping up, and its response is invariably too little, and too late. (The Verge $) + They even have a nickname: “pervert glasses.” (Vox $)
5 Efforts are underway to measure Spotify’s AI slop problem People are desperate for it to start labelling AI-generated music. (404 Media) + We’re in a weird era regarding AI’s role in literature. (The Atlantic $)
6 People are renting out their faces to AI in China Often for microdramas, which are big business and increasingly rely on AI. (Rest of World) + How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Microsoft is having a torrid year Rivals building better AI tools are threatening its business on multiple fronts. (Business Insider $)
8 How bots took over the internet They now outnumber humans, in terms of overall web traffic. (New Yorker $)
9 Robotaxis are hitting London’s streets this summer Just for testing for now, though there are plans to launch rides to the public next year. (Engadget)
10 Why video games are obsessed with Backrooms These spaces, which players aren’t supposed to access, can provoke a strange, liminal sort of discomfort. (Guardian)
Quote of the day
“It’s going to be a wild ride.”
—Christine Peterson, co-founder of the grantmaking group Foresight Institute, tells Wired charities anticipate a huge philanthropy windfall from Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELENA SUBACH
On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop
Starlink is critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia, but Donald Trump’s fickle foreign policy and reports suggesting Elon Musk might remove Ukraine’s access to the services have cast the technology’s future in the country into doubt.
For now Starlink access largely comes down to the unofficial community of users and engineers, including the expert “Dr. Starlink”—famous for his creative ways of customizing the systems—who have kept Ukraine in the fight, both on and off the front line.
He gave MIT Technology Review exclusive access to his unofficial Starlink repair workshop in the city of Lviv. Read the full story.
—Charlie Metcalfe
We can still have nice things
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Os pesquisadores de segurança Talal Haj Bakry e Tommy Mysk descobriram uma vulnerabilidade no macOS a qual permite que apps confiáveis sejam substituídos por softwares maliciosos, mas o seu funcionamento é mais complexo do que parece à primeira vista.
A brecha é iniciada por arquivos de execução de aplicativos baixados pela internet, que são silenciosamente substituídos por malwares (provavelmente compactados no formato .tar). Há, porém, um grande asterisco para que o ataque seja bem sucedido, suficiente para aliviar a preocupação de muitos: ele exige que já exista um acesso prévio a esse Mac para funcionar corretamente.
A execução decorre da ausência de uma segunda verificação do Gatekeeper (sistema de defesa do macOS quanto aos arquivos de um determinado aplicativo), checando a segurança dos apps apenas durante a primeira execução. As modificações até podem condicionar a abertura de uma caixa de diálogo, mas essas permissões são solicitadas em nome do arquivo executável baixado originalmente pelo usuário, o que diminui descrenças sobre a segurança da ação.
A melhor forma de se prevenir é evitar o download de arquivos e executáveis por parte de fontes desconhecidas, inclusive nos casos em que o que foi baixado é associado a um software da sua confiança. A brecha, vale lembrar, não afeta nada baixado pela Mac App Store.
Os pesquisadores relataram o problema à Apple, que optou por encerrar o caso sem resolver a falha.
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Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have only a matter of hours to get it into a recipient.
In most cases, organs will be kept on ice during that time, at around 4 °C (39 °F). They cannot be frozen—in previous attempts, ice has formed, causing all kinds of damage.
But now, scientists have come up with a device that allows organs to be cooled to -4 °C (25 °F) without forming any ice. They’ve tested it with pig organs and shown that kidneys, at least, can be preserved in the device for days then successfully transplanted.
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1 Inside China’s epic push to replace US chips The gap between their chips’ capabilities remains large—for now. (WSJ $) + How China is using open source AI as a new form of soft power around the globe. (NYT $) + A new bill in the US takes aim at Chinese AI companies’ training practices. (NBC) + US lawmakers are also mulling banning the military from using Chinese humanoid robots. (SCMP)
2 Space data centers don’t exist yet, but people already oppose them Environmental experts warn it’ll further pollute the stratosphere. (Guardian) + Four things we’d need to put data centers in space. (MIT Technology Review) + What it’s like inside the data centers powering AI down here on Earth. (Axios) + The left and right are finding common cause with data center protests in the US. (The Verge)
3 US lawmakers are pushing for an AI ‘kill switch’ After OpenAI’s models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face. (BBC)
4 Peptides seem on the cusp of going mainstream in the US A lack of scientific evidence didn’t stop the FDA just voting to let some pharmacies to legally dispense them. (Wired $) + How does Make America Healthy Again hold up to scientific scrutiny? (Nature) + US measles cases are reaching levels not seen for three decades. (Wired $) + Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know. (MIT Technology Review)
5 The EU just fined Google almost $1 billion For competition breaches over apps and search. (FT $) + It came just a day before Trump renewed tariffs on 60 trading partners, including the EU. (BBC)
6 Electric vehicles are selling well in Europe And the share made by Chinese firms has doubled in the last year. (The Next Web) + Hybrids are hot property in the US this summer. (Wired $)
7 There’s a worsening shortage of computer science professors You can blame AI companies—they keep snapping them up, to our general detriment. (The Atlantic $)
8 A judge caught a stenographer allowing AI errors into their transcript It’s apparently the first time this has happened, but it certainly won’t be the last. (404 Media) + Even judges themselves are falling for AI. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Here’s what new tech millionaires will do with their IPO wealth What a nice problem to have to grapple with! (Quartz $)
10 Dating apps’ latest wheeze? In-person events Well well well, it seems we’ve come full circle. (Bloomberg $)
Quote of the day
“Call us optimists, call us dreamers. Just as we’ve always done, we’re betting on people.”
—The voiceover from a new advert from Meta, which exhorts us to be more optimistic about AI.
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BELL HUTLEY
AI is changing how we study bird migration
In a warming world increasingly full of human infrastructure that can be deadly to them, like glass skyscrapers and power lines, migratory birds are facing many existential threats.
Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their migrations, though each has shortcomings. But now, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.
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The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags
During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about 9% of its total demand that day.
Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens. It opened in May and is officially the longest underground transmission line in North America. It could provide up to 20% of New York City’s electricity demand, largely with abundant hydropower from Quebec.
One wrinkle: The line has been down for most of this month, and some experts are concerned about how drought will affect the power supply feeding it.
Still, the line could help shape the future of our grid, if it can overcome these sorts of snags. Read our story to understand how.
—Casey Crownhart
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 The US Treasury is threatening to sanction Chinese AI companies Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. (TechCrunch) + Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is arguing that America has nothing to fear from Chinese AI. (Axios) + Like it or not, Chinese models are now part of the global AI infrastructure. (Rest of World) + China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Why the OpenAI hack is the scariest AI mishap yet AI’s capabilities seem to be starting to outpace our current ability to control them. (The Economist $) + Hugging Face had to turn to a Chinese AI model to rescue it from the hack. (BI)
3 Visually impaired Europeans can now get an implant that restores sight And Americans may not have to wait long to receive it, too. (STAT) + This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle. (MIT Technology Review)
4 A bellwether lawsuit suing Meta for social media addiction has been dropped There are, however, many more waiting in the wings. (NYT $)
5 Here’s how ICE gets its hands on Americans’ data As soon as you open a credit card or phone account, its agents can see where you live. (404 Media) + States are warring with the Trump administration over the right to see ICE agents’ faces. (Wired $)
6 We urgently need to grapple with AI’s environmental impact As the world warms, is the price we’re paying worth it? (The Verge) + We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Privacy issues with smart glasses need an industrywide fix That’s according to Samsung, which is unveiling glasses it developed with Google this fall. (Bloomberg $)
8 The US Army is begging soldiers to limit their AI use The token crisis comes for us all eventually, it seems. (Ars Technica)
9 Why does lettuce keep making Americans sick? It’s pretty simple: a lot of people eat it, and it doesn’t get cooked. (Wired $)
10 Pokemon Go is the perfect game to play this summer It’s fun, collaborative, and it gets you outdoors. (Guardian)
Quote of the day
“It went off and did this hack all by itself, as far as we can tell. This is the highest level of autonomy that we’ve seen in the use of a large language model for cyber operations.”
—Colin Shea-Blymyer, a cybersecurity research fellow at Georgetown University, tells NPR why the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face is so alarming.
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KAGAN MACLEOD
Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream
Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps.
But is he responsible for what it’s used for? It’s a question that matters because in January last year, its users lost more than $200 million in cryptocurrency after THORChain transactions and accounts were frozen by an admin override, which users believed was not supposed to be possible given the decentralized structure. It’s also been used by North Korean hackers to move $1.2 billion of stolen ethereum.
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Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own
When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date. It will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography.
The technology will allow astronomers to take the first pictures of planets orbiting other stars that are similar to those in our solar system. Ultimately, it could pave the way for a future mission that could snap the first photos of Earth-like worlds.
“I hope it’s remembered for it being that critical stepping stone for … finding Earth 2.0,” says Brandon Creager, the instrument’s lead mechanical engineer.
MIT Technology Review Narrated: PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory.
Inside, some 100 stainless-steel cabinets each hold hundreds of chips. On those chips, thousands of light particles will fly through a maze of optical switches and beam splitters. Each photon must be accounted for, because precisely measuring where it ends up will help answer questions that current computers might take millions of years to solve.
This computer, as described, does not exist. It’s the brainchild of a company called PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four physicists from UK universities. In a crowded field of deep-pocketed competitors with similarly fantastical visions, the company aims to be the first to build a useful quantum machine.
—James O’Donnell
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1 OpenAI says one of its models carried out an autonomous hack It escaped its testing sandbox and breached AI research platform Hugging Face. (Reuters $) + OpenAI described it as a cybersecurity test that went badly wrong. (WSJ $) + The hack is among the first known cyberattacks by an AI acting on its own. (FT $) + Even simple AI attacks are cause for alarm, though. (MIT Technology Review)
2 France has become the first EU country to ban social media for under-15s Its parliament approved the ban, which President Macron championed. (NYT $) + He pledged to enforce it by September, the start of the school year. (Guardian) + But critics say it’s unconstitutional and impossible to enforce. (NPR)
3 The US and China will hold talks over AI in September Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will lead the US side. (Reuters $) + Chinese models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Publishers are considering cutting Google off as AI reshapes search News outlets are weighing lost traffic against AI exposure. (WSJ $)
5 Samsung is in talks to invest €1 billion in Mistral The French AI firm is positioning itself as an alternative to US models. (FT $) + It’s Europe’s leading AI firm, but US peers dwarf its $20 billion valuation. (Reuters $)
6 Amazon pushed up rivals’ prices, leaked records allege Internal emails reveal tactics that allegedly reshaped online pricing. (Guardian)
7 Trump has tapped a Big Tech critic to lead the DOJ’s antitrust division Adam Candeub has called for tougher federal competition enforcement. (FT $)
8 New drilling methods could unlock geothermal energy almost anywhere They aim to unlock Earth’s enormous heat reserves. (New Scientist $) + AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources. (MIT Technology Review)
9 AI researchers have proposed a “Genie coefficient” for measuring AI risks It would track the gap between intent and action. (IEEE Spectrum) + We need better ways to evaluate AI. (MIT Technology Review)
10 Japan’s AI boom has two unlikely winners: a toilet maker and an MSG giant They’re supplying critical chipmaking materials. (CNBC)
Quote of the day
“He’s an analog man in a digital AI world, and I think that’s incredibly appealing.”
—Paul Dergarabedian, a movie industry analyst at Comscore, tells Fortune that Christopher Nolan’s commitment to human filmmaking provides an attractive counterweight to Hollywood’s embrace of AI.
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DANA SMITH
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Taiwan produces the majority of the world’s semiconductors and more than 90% of the most advanced chips needed for AI applications. Many believe that’s helped deter China from invading the island. But now some Taiwan specialists and citizens are worried that this “silicon shield” is cracking.
Facing pressure from Washington, TSMC—the world’s largest chipmaker—is expanding manufacturing abroad. In Taiwan, there are worries that this will dilute the company’s power at home, making the US and other countries less inclined to defend the island.
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China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks branded Anthropic’s models “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new head of strategic futures a “supreme village idiot.”
It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open-source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week. It appears to rival the intelligence of models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which are very much not free.
Every time a new smart, free model from China gets released, US companies see less reason to fork out money for models from Anthropic or OpenAI. That’s creating economic and political problems for the president—and dividing the top AI strategists in his orbit.
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1 Anthropic’s record $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved The plaintiffs said Anthropic used pirated works to train Claude. (Reuters $) + And won the largest known copyright payout in history. (Engadget) + Yet many authors and creators still don’t view it as a win. (TechCrunch) + But AI copyright anxiety could limit creativity. (MIT Technology Review)
2 The Trump administration is weighing a ban on Chinese AI models The launch of Kimi K3 has revived calls for restrictions. (Axios) + But officials are divided on the proposals. (Fast Company) + China’s bet on open-source is paying off. (MIT Technology Review)
3 China is mulling tighter export controls on AI models and chips It wants to stop the West from acquiring its tech and startups. (FT $) + Beijing has held talks with tech firms about potential restrictions. (Reuters $)
4 Trump’s AI safety head has resigned after just three months Chris Fall had led CAISI, the federal AI Safety Institute, since April. (Axios) + No reason was given for his exit. (CNBC)
5 Google is working on a new chip to run Gemini models more efficiently The chip, called “Frozen V2,” may be deployed in 2028. (Information $) + Alphabet stock popped on the report. (CNBC)
6 New Orleans police have explored arming drones with weapons A draft drone manual paves the way for weaponised quadcopters. (404 Media) + Shoplifters could soon be chased by drones. (MIT Technology Review)
7 The EU has handed AliExpress a record fine over unsafe product sales The €550 million fine is the largest-ever under the Digital Services Act. (BBC) + Alibaba has vowed to appeal the fine. (SCMP)
8 Election advice from AI chatbots is “inaccurate and unreliable” That’s the conclusion from tests in Hungary earlier this year. (Guardian)
9 Red light therapy is showing promise for healing and healthy aging Better skin and reduced vision loss are also on the cards. (Economist $)
10 Neill Blomkamp’s new horror clip is all AI-generated—and it sucks The acclaimed director wants to make “a full feature in this format.” (Gizmodo)
Quote of the day
“This would be a terribly self-defeating form of intervention if it were to happen.”
—Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya slams plans to restrict Chinese AI models in a post on X.
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AKILAH TOWNSEND
Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon
Early on the morning of September 2, 2024, four people were shot and killed on a westbound train in Chicago. Police swiftly activated a digital dragnet—a surveillance network that connects thousands of cameras across the city—and arrested the suspect just 90 minutes later.
Law enforcement and security advocates say this vast monitoring system protects public safety and works well. But activists and many residents say it’s a surveillance panopticon that creates a chilling effect on behavior and violates guarantees of privacy and free speech.
Grande parte dos vídeos que consumimos hoje vai muito além do entretenimento. Tutoriais técnicos, palestras públicas, demonstrações de produtos, treinamentos corporativos, webinars, apresentações de eventos e materiais educativos fazem parte da rotina de estudantes, profissionais e empreendedores.
Em muitos momentos, ter acesso a esse conteúdo mesmo sem conexão com a internet pode fazer toda a diferença. Mas surge uma dúvida comum: vale mais a pena utilizar uma ferramenta que funciona diretamente no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado?
A resposta depende principalmente da forma como cada pessoa utiliza seus dispositivos e organiza seu fluxo de trabalho.
Quando uma ferramenta baseada no navegador faz mais sentido
As soluções que funcionam diretamente no navegador conquistaram muitos usuários por eliminarem uma etapa importante: a instalação.
Em poucos segundos, é possível abrir a ferramenta, utilizar seus recursos e continuar trabalhando, independentemente do computador ou do dispositivo utilizado.
Essa praticidade costuma ser especialmente útil para quem precisa acessar conteúdos em diferentes dispositivos sem depender da instalação de programas.
Acompanhar palestras e conferências online;
Consultar tutoriais técnicos durante o trabalho;
Revisar treinamentos profissionais;
Utilizar computadores compartilhados;
Alternar frequentemente entre computador, tablet e smartphone.
Nesses casos, um baixador de vídeos do YouTube baseado no navegador permite abrir a ferramenta rapidamente e acessar conteúdos públicos de forma simples, independentemente do sistema operacional utilizado.
Outro benefício importante é a compatibilidade. Como o acesso acontece pelo navegador, a experiência permanece semelhante em diferentes sistemas operacionais, facilitando o uso em qualquer dispositivo.
Quando um aplicativo pode ser a melhor escolha
Embora as ferramentas baseadas no navegador sejam extremamente práticas, existem situações em que um aplicativo dedicado oferece uma experiência diferente.
Usuários que acessam frequentemente os mesmos materiais, organizam conteúdos por categorias ou preferem manter tudo disponível em um único ambiente costumam valorizar recursos adicionais de organização e gerenciamento.
Nesse contexto, soluções como a Muka representam uma alternativa interessante para quem prefere utilizar um aplicativo em vez do navegador. Dependendo da rotina de cada pessoa, esse tipo de abordagem pode tornar o acesso aos conteúdos mais conveniente.
Além disso, aplicativos costumam facilitar a organização de arquivos locais e oferecer acesso rápido aos materiais utilizados com maior frequência.
Não existe uma solução única
Na prática, o navegador e o aplicativo resolvem necessidades diferentes.
Imagine alguns exemplos:
Um estudante universitário utiliza o computador da biblioteca para revisar uma palestra antes de uma prova.
Um empresário salva uma apresentação sobre marketing digital para consultar durante uma viagem.
Um técnico acompanha demonstrações de equipamentos enquanto trabalha em locais onde a conexão nem sempre é estável.
Outro profissional prefere manter seus materiais organizados em um aplicativo para encontrá-los rapidamente sempre que necessário.
Todos possuem objetivos semelhantes, mas desenvolvem hábitos diferentes para acessar seus conteúdos de referência.
O fator mais importante é a praticidade
Ao escolher uma solução, muitas pessoas concentram a atenção apenas nas funcionalidades. Entretanto, a facilidade de acesso costuma ser igualmente importante.
Se o objetivo é consultar rapidamente um material de referência, quanto menos etapas existirem entre o usuário e o conteúdo, melhor será a experiência.
Por isso, ferramentas baseadas no navegador continuam sendo uma excelente opção para quem valoriza simplicidade e acesso imediato, enquanto aplicativos podem oferecer uma experiência mais organizada para quem consulta os mesmos conteúdos com frequência.
Conclusão
O crescimento dos conteúdos digitais mudou a forma como aprendemos, trabalhamos e compartilhamos conhecimento. Palestras, treinamentos, demonstrações técnicas, apresentações profissionais e outros materiais de referência tornaram-se recursos importantes para milhões de pessoas.
Escolher entre uma ferramenta baseada no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado não significa decidir qual tecnologia é superior, mas identificar qual delas se adapta melhor ao seu dia a dia.
Quando a solução acompanha a maneira como utilizamos nossos dispositivos, acessar conteúdos importantes offline torna-se um processo mais simples, eficiente e conveniente.
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There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.
Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers, conversations about the sometimes years-long period before menopause are now more open than ever. But the conversation is increasingly shaped by misinformation.
Despite what some marketers will claim, there is no test for perimenopause. That doesn’t mean women should have to put up with symptoms, but treatment suggestions often lack scientific evidence. And not all the symptoms women experience in midlife can be blamed on hormones.
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1China’s AI gap with the US may have just narrowed A Chinese startup has released the world’s largest open AI model. (Reuters $) + It competes with some Anthropic and OpenAI models. (Gizmodo) + The model’s launch sent AI and semiconductor stocks sliding. (Bloomberg $) + Chinese Nvidia alternatives are also gaining traction. (SCMP) + Xi Jinping pitched China as an AI partner to the developing world. (CNBC) + The country is betting big on open-source. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Trump Media is selling instant access to “market-moving’ social posts It’s developed a new way to monetize the president’s posts. (Quartz) + And Trump could profit directly from selling access to his statements. (BBC) + Kalshi says it caught Trump’s teleprompter operator insider trading. (Verge)
3 Astronomers have found an atmosphere on a nearby Earth-like planet It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere. (NYT $) + Making it a top contender in the search for aliens. (404 Media) + But you need to know how to spot one. (MIT Technology Review)
4 A brain implant has restored feeling in a paralysed hand The recipient can now feed himself and drink from a cup. (Guardian) + Movement continued when the stimulation was turned off. (New Scientist $) + China has approved a world-first brain chip. (MIT Technology Review)
5 The EU has told Google to share search data and open up AI on Android It will be forced to share data with competing search providers. (Ars Technica) + And open Android phones to rivals’ AI bots. (WP $)
6 Period trackers are hiding privacy problems New research uncovers how they’re sharing users’ health data. (BBC)
7 The Tesla driver in a fatal Texas crash overrode FSD, investigators say He bypassed the tech by pressing the gas pedal to 100%. (Verge)
8 A new stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears Though its creators admit it can still be easily heard. (New Scientist $)
9 A space-station study suggests why astronauts’ bodies waste away Microgravity disrupts mitochondria, reducing protein production. (Nature)
10 “Adversarial clothing” that confuses facial recognition is all the rage Privacy could be the next big trend. (Guardian)
Quote of the day
“Xi’s message is clear: China is not going to follow anyone on both AI technology and standards. Instead, China is going to lead the world in both aspects.”
—George Chen, chair in digital practice at The Asia Group consultancy, gives Reuters his take on Xi Jinping’s speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.
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BRYN NELSON
How poop could feed the planet
A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while recycling nutrients that are crucial for agriculture but in increasingly short supply across the nation’s farmlands.
It’s among a range of systems reframing feces, urine, and their ingredients as invaluable natural resources to reuse instead of waste products to burn or bury. Several companies are now showing how to safely scale up the transformation with energy-efficient technologies.
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Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks.
It automates a type of safety evaluation for software systems known as red-teaming, which is typically done by a team of human testers. The aim is to find as many different ways to break or hijack a system as possible.
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer, but we need to talk about heat pumps.
The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they’re on the rise. In the US, their sales have doubled over the past 15 years, according to a new report. They’re also winning the heating race against fossil fuels, outpacing natural-gas furnaces by 32% during the first quarter of 2026.
These stats are especially striking at this moment, because a key tax credit for heat pumps just ended. So why are heat pumps still so hot? Read the full story for the answer.
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1 Elon Musk discreetly bought a $1 billion gas turbine firm to power Grok He acquired fossil fuel company APR Energy in May. (Electrek) + The most likely application will be powering AI data centers. (Engadget) + The deal was revealed through an FTC filing. (Gizmodo) + What will power AI’s growth? (MIT Technology Review)
2 A hack shows the Suno AI music generator scraped YouTube, Deezer It scraped decades’ worth of music to train its models. (404 Media) + The hacked is a unique look into the black boxes powering GenAI. (CNET) + AI is coming for music, too. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Thinking Machines has launched an open-weight AI model Inkling offers a US alternative to China’s open-source models. (Reuters $) + It’s the first AI model built by Thinking Machines. (WSJ $) + The startup was founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. (Axios)
4 Europe is narrowing its ambitions for tech independence Manufacturing and research show promise, but funding is a problem. (NYT $) + Earnings are strong, but an AI gap persists. (Reuters $) + India is also scrambling for AI independence. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Earth is absorbing energy at a rate that’s alarming climate scientists The planet is taking in more heat than models predicted. (Economist $) + The legal case for climate justice is growing. (MIT Technology Review)
6 The AI backlash has tech executives fearing for their lives Violent threats against AI firms are spilling into the real world. (WSJ $) + An anti-AI movement is growing globally. (MIT Technology Review)
7 A Moroccan intelligence insider exposed widespread Pegasus use Including to target journalists, activists, and foreign politicians. (Guardian)
8 AI is powering citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela It’s helping to locate missing people and coordinate relief. (Rest of World)
9 Thermodynamic computers could turn noise into useful calculations They may offer a cooler, more efficient way to process information. (Quanta)
10 An engineer has explained every ’90s computer in Jurassic Park Fans have debated the technology in the film for decades. (Ars Technica)
Quote of the day
“We hit pause because the communities powering AI should share in its success. Maybe that’s a novel concept in Washington.”
—New York Gov. Kathy Hochul responds on X to President Donald Trump’s criticism of her state’s new data center moratorium.
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Will we ever trust robots?
Robotics firm Prosper is developing a humanoid called Alfie to perform tasks in homes, hospitals, and hotels. The company’s founder, Shariq Hashme, has identified trustworthiness as the top design priority—and first hurdle to clear before humanoids can live up to their hype.
Hashme believes one essential tactic to get people to put their trust in Alfie is to build a detailed character from the ground up—something humanlike but not too human. But the robot’s reliance on remote human operators raises broader questions about privacy, labour, and whether society will truly accept humanoids in our private spaces.
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PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory.
Inside, some 100 stainless-steel cabinets each hold hundreds of chips. On those chips, thousands of light particles will fly through a maze of optical switches and beam splitters. Each photon must be accounted for, because precisely measuring where it ends up will help answer questions that current computers might take millions of years to solve.
This computer, as described, does not exist. It’s the brainchild of a company called PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four physicists from UK universities. In a crowded field of deep-pocketed competitors with similarly fantastical visions, the company aims to be the first to build a useful quantum machine.
MIT Technology Review Narrated: inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
—Niall Firth
I’m currently around 1,000 feet beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I’m increasingly aware of the pressure from millions of tons of seawater just above my head.
I’m under the iconic fjords of Norway to visit what will soon become the world’s longest and deepest subsea road tunnel—an exceptional engineering feat that will carry drivers deep beneath the North Sea.
I’m here to understand how you make a 16.6-mile highway that sits 1,280 feet below the sea at its deepest point. And also—at a time when it can feel hard to get anything done—to reassure myself that ambitious engineering is still possible. That we can still make things.
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1 Meta allegedly used AI to target workers with health issues for layoffs Their lawsuit says Meta relied on AI to create a termination list. (Guardian) + And pinpointed staff who took maternity or disability leave. (Reuters $) + One was allegedly informed the day before her water broke. (Ars Technica) + The layoffs aimed to offset Meta’s AI spending. (Gizmodo) + AI agents are not your “coworkers.” (MIT Technology Review)
2 OpenAI’s first consumer device will be a mobile smart speaker The screenless device will serve as an “AI companion.” (Bloomberg $) + It’ll let you talk with ChatGPT. (Verge) + And use a camera and sensor to understand your environment. (Reuters $) + It’s set to launch next year. (Engadget)
3 The US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time They attacked an Iranian midget submarine and naval port. (Ars Technica) + Underwater drones may shape a war in Taiwan. (MIT Technology Review)
4 DeepMind’s CEO has called for a US-led body to test frontier AI models Demis Hassabis wants the watchdog to vet national security threats. (FT $) + If dangers mount, it would coordinate an industry-wide slowdown. (Axios)
5 Data centers are set to add billions in power costs in 13 states A power auction is slated to produce $6.3 billion in new charges. (NYT $) + Australia plans to govern the use of water and power for AI. (WSJ $)
6 xAI’s unpermitted power pollution hits Black communities hardest Elon Musk’s xAI has been installing gas turbines without permits. (Reuters $) + We need to focus on Big Tech’s energy footprint. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Stripe and Advent have offered to buy PayPal for more than $53 billion The payments giant and private equity firm have made a joint bid. (Reuters $) + Apple and Google Pay have eroded PayPal’s market share. (Bloomberg $)
8 DeepSeek plans to file for IPO as soon as this year The Chinese AI pioneer is likely to list in Shanghai. (WSJ $) + Here’s why DeepSeek’s latest model matters. (MIT Technology Review)
9 A hard, lightweight “bio-metal” has been discovered in sea worm jaws It could have applications in engineering. (New Scientist $)
10 A new $3,000 fitness suit electrocutes you to boost your gains Celebrities love it—but not everyone’s a fan. (404 Media)
Quote of the day
“By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.”
—Alex Reisner, a staff writer at The Atlantic, explains why GenAI’s scaling problem is an engineering disaster.
One More Thing
FRANZISKA BARCZYK
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
In April 2024, an anonymous hacker began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord channels aimed at a cybersecurity researcher named Allison Nixon. It wasn’t long before others piled on. Someone shared AI-generated nudes of her.
They targeted Nixon because she had become a formidable threat. As chief research officer at the cyber investigations firm Unit 221B, named after Sherlock Holmes’s apartment, she had built a career tracking cybercriminals and helping get them arrested.
For years, Nixon had lurked quietly in online chat channels or used pseudonyms to engage with perpetrators and bring them to justice. Now, she resolved to unmask the people behind the death threats—and take them down for crimes they admitted to committing.
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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
—James O’Donnell
When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models’ “internal thoughts” as they reason through answers, there was one colleague I had to talk to: senior editor Will Douglas Heaven.
Aside from having a PhD in computer science, Will has spent a lot of time digging into what we can say about how AI models work. I spoke with him about what we should take from Anthropic’s new (and typically quirky) research. Here’s what he had to say.
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How will AI understand the real world?
Today’s AI systems can generate text, images, and code with impressive skill, but they still struggle with the complexities of the physical world. To bridge this gap, many researchers believe you need something called a world model.
At a LinkedIn Live event today, MIT Technology Review will investigate how this technology could transform robotics and help unlock a new generation of intelligent machines. Join Will Douglas Heaven, our senior editor for AI, and Sam Sinha, founding AI researcher and head of world models at 1X Technologies, for the discussion.
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 New York has become the first state to enact a data center moratorium Its governor banned large data-center construction for up to a year. (WSJ $) + A bill passed by state lawmakers could go even further. (Verge) + Everyone hates data centers. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Smartphone shipments have hit a 13-year low due to the memory crunch They fell 11% in the second quarter of 2026. (Reuters $) + The memory chip shortage has increased prices. (Gizmodo) + And threatens the promise of Moore’s Law. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Sugar molecules have been found in interstellar space for the first time It hints that life on Earth may have been seeded from space. (Nature) + And boosts the odds of living organisms existing elsewhere. (New Scientist $) + Researchers used radio telescopes and data to spot the molecules. (NYT $)
4 Nvidia has halved its Asia buyer list to stop AI chips reaching China It introduced a “white list” of companies that passed tougher checks. (FT $) + It moved amid tighter chip controls from the Trump administration. (Reuters $)
5 Russian state hackers are targeting routers to spy and steal, the US warns The government has warned users to secure their devices. (Ars Technica) + Now is a good time for doing crime. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Trump moved his crypto gains into stocks while urging people to buy more His crypto projects earned him a fortune—but steep losses for retail buyers. (Reuters $) + He’s called for Congress to pass a new crypto bill to honor Lindsey Graham. (CNBC)
7 A new cell therapy has saved four children with terminal brain cancer They were treated with an experimental immunotherapy. (New Scientist $) + Access for older children will also be limited. (Bloomberg $)
8 The LAPD has halted use of Flock surveillance cameras due to privacy issues Flock’s automated license plate readers have caused concerns. (LA Times $) + It’s also been criticized for sharing data with state and federal officials. (Engadget)
9 The US has approved launching a space mirror that reflects sunlight onto Earth As part of a controversial plan to power solar panels round the clock. (Wired $) + But geoengineering faces many practical challenges. (MIT Technology Review)
10 Anthropic says Claude’s values vary depending on your language It’s most cautious in English and most deferential in Arabic. (Gizmodo)
Quote of the day
“The age when humans are the highest life form on earth will end. For better or for worse, it will happen and it can’t be stopped.”
—SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son predicts that AI will overtake human intelligence by 2040 in a speech at his company’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, Reuters reports.
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Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
Millions of embryos created through IVF sit frozen in time, stored in cryopreservation tanks around the world. Many are left in a peculiar limbo, with no clear path forward.
UK residents can discard them, make them available to other prospective parents, or donate them for research. People in the US can also opt for “adoption,” “placing” their embryos with families they get to choose. In Germany, people aren’t typically allowed to freeze embryos at all. And in Italy, unused embryos must remain frozen, ostensibly forever.
While these embryos remain in suspended animation, patients, clinicians, embryologists, and legislators must grapple with the essential question of what to do with them. What do these embryos mean to us? Who should be responsible for them?
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Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group
Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic using sperm from an anonymous donor. He eventually tracked down one sibling, but he may have others he’ll never find.
Other donor-conceived people have found they have tens or even hundreds of them. “It does make you feel a bit mass-produced,” said one who discovered they had 25 half-siblings.
In response, a European fertility organization says we need international limits on the number of children a single donor can contribute to.
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How will AI understand the real world?
LLMs have transformed what AI can do with language, but helping machines understand and operate within physical spaces presents a different challenge. In response, researchers are developing a new form of artificial intelligence: world models.
At a LinkedIn Live event tomorrow, MIT Technology Review will explore how this technology could shape the future of robotics and open one of AI’s next major frontiers. Join Will Douglas Heaven, our senior editor for AI, and Sam Sinha, founding AI researcher and head of world models at 1X Technologies, for the conversation on Tuesday, July 14.
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets OpenAI purportedly stole IP to develop its own consumer hardware. (CNBC) + The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple staff to access the information. (BBC) + And requested trade secrets in job interviews with Apple workers. (Guardian) + Apple also sued two former employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan. (Reuters $)
2 A Nobel-winning chemist is leaving the US to lead an AI lab in China Omar Yaghi will head an institute using AI to discover new materials. (LA Times $) + He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating “molecular sponges.” (NYT $) + His departure comes as China tries to woo US scientists. (Nature) + The White House has slashed science spending. (MIT Technology Review)
3 The EU is moving closer to banning children from social media It’s proposed barring under-13s unless supervised by an adult. (NYT $) + And limiting access for older children. (Bloomberg $) + The EU has also told Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll. (Politico $)
4 Meta scrapped an AI image feature on Instagram after a backlash It allowed users to generate images based on public accounts. (TechCrunch) + And automatically opted in any Instagram user with a public account. (NYT $) + AI memories are privacy’s next frontier. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Phoebe Gates’ shopping app claimed credit for sales it didn’t drive Phia claimed unearned affiliate sales through fake clicks. (Bloomberg $) + Cofounder Gates is the daughter of Microsoft cofounder Bill. (Engadget)
6 Leaked police drone footage exposes the new reality of surveillance Hours of San Francisco Police video were accidentally released. (Wired $) + Surveillance from drones is on the rise in the US. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Over two-thirds of Americans back a Sanders-style AI ownership plan A poll found strong support for public ownership of AI stock. (Gizmodo) + Tech firms have their own takes on the idea. (MIT Technology Review)
8 AI may soon make campaign text messages more potent—and irritating AI platforms are training bots to sound like political candidates. (NPR)
9 An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet It measured Earth’s twisting of space-time more precisely. (Rest of World)
10 Australia’s biggest radio hit may be the product of GenAI Musicians are questioning how the song was made. (Guardian)
Quote of the day
“LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.”
—A text message sent by former Apple engineer Chang Liu to a colleague, which a new lawsuit alleges was part of a scheme to steal hardware IP for OpenAI.
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Colombian military officials intercepted this 40-foot-long uncrewed fiberglass “narco sub” in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park.
CARLOS PARRA RIOS
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
On a bright April morning in 2025, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long “narco sub” idling in the Caribbean Sea. The stealthy vessel, used by drug cartels to move cocaine north, could sail with its hull almost entirely underwater.
After seizing the boat, the coast guard noticed something unusual: there was no one on board. This was Colombia’s first confirmed uncrewed narco sub, operable by remote control, but also capable of a degree of autonomous travel.
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Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving.
Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or J-lens) and used it to uncover a hidden area, which they named the J-space, inside its flagship LLM, Claude.
The J-space contains words related to the response a model is working on but may not ultimately produce. If Claude were a person (which it is not), you might say these hidden words reveal what’s on its mind before it actually speaks.
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 OpenAI has unveiled its long-awaited “super app” ChatGPT Work blends its chatbot, coding tool, and new models. (Reuters $) + It’s designed to do your work for you and with you. (Ars Technica) + And arrived the same day as OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 models. (NYT $) + It’s also developing a fully automated researcher. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Humanoids have performed teleoperated surgery on living animals In the world-first, they removed gallbladders from pigs. (Ars Technica) + The human work behind humanoids is hidden. (MIT Technology Review)
3 SK Hynix has landed the largest US listing by a foreign company The South Korean chip giant raised $26.5 billion. (CNN) + Demand for AI data centres has led its profits to skyrocket. (Guardian) + But its jumbo share sale may be a sign of overheated times. (FT $) + South Korea’s hottest bachelors are chip workers. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Tencent is leading a deal to unwind Meta’s $2 billion Manus acquisition It’s in talks to become the Chinese AI startup’s largest shareholder. (FT $) + Tencent will reportedly buy Manus for no less than $2 billion. (Reuters $) + Beijing had ordered Meta to unwind the acquisition. (Bloomberg $)
5 Resuscitated human retinas responded to light 10 hours after death It’s a big step towards eye transplants that restore vision. (New Scientist $) + As is a new device that revives dead eyeballs. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Meta has started charging for AI access A new version of Muse Spark has a paid tier for developers. (Quartz) + Meta also plans to start producing an AI chip in September. (Reuters $)
7 OpenAI and Google have sold AI models to blacklisted China groups Via Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. (FT $)
8 A daughter tested an AI “death bot” of her father The technology provided both comfort and unease. (New Yorker $)
9 An astronomer says the hunt for alien life needs more statistics He wants to replace speculation with mathematical frameworks. (Quanta)
10 Pokémon Go players turned Times Square into a giant battlefield More than 1,500 fans finally fulfilled the game’s 2016 launch promise. (Wired $) + Pokémon Go is also training world models. (MIT Technology Review)
Quote of the day
“When we’re talking about AI, we love the hype, we get excited about it. The damn thing never actually lands in practice.”
—Vijay Janapa Reddi, an engineering professor at Harvard University, tells Wired why he’s skeptical about grand plans for AI.
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B.F. SKINNER FOUNDATION
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
In 1943, psychologist B.F. Skinner led a secret government project to make bombs more precise. His idea: teach pigeons to guide missiles by pecking at targets on a screen inside a warhead. To train them, Skinner rewarded the birds with food when they made the right decisions, using trial and error to shape their behavior.
Unsurprisingly, the military never deployed Skinner’s kamikaze pigeons. Yet his experiments convinced him that pigeons were “an extremely reliable instrument” for studying learning.
Decades later, those same principles would help power reinforcement learning, the technology behind some of today’s most advanced AI systems.
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+ Here’s a splendid selection of this year’s NSW architecture award winners. + Photographers have captured the Strawberry Moon’s golden glow in stunning detail. + Idiocracy is the film that best exemplifies the “American experience,” according to a new poll. Look back at the prescient comedy with this Screen Junkies trailer. + Get ready for the weekend with this psychedelic house journey from Jamie xx b2b Caribou.
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Introducing: the Engineering issue
We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new Engineering issue of MIT Technology Review is all about.
Sometimes the challenges we face are giant, like tunneling beneath the seafloor. Some exist at the nanoscale, as with a new ASML machine powering the future of chipmaking. Others represent problems at a planetary scale and in truly unknown territory, like replicating a volcano’s mechanism to cool the Earth on purpose.
These incredible engineering stories show we can come together to get to work and, when the smoke clears, find we’ve made real progress. Subscribe now to read all of them—and more—in the full print issue.
Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections
The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles.
Now, the payment company Stripe is funding a new $500-million nonprofit aiming to prevent both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual goal is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Bill Gates have also backed the venture, which will investigate whether modern technologies can counter the common cold and the flu. Dive into the nonprofit’s plans.
—Antonio Regalado
MIT Technology Review Narrated: inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever
As asteroid 2024 YR4 hurtled toward Earth, astronomers determined that this massive rock posed a higher risk of impact than any object of its size in recorded history. Then, just as quickly as history was made, experts declared that the danger had passed.
This is the inside story of the network of global scientists who found, followed, planned for, and finally dismissed the most dangerous asteroid ever discovered —all under the tightest of timelines and with the highest of stakes.
—Robin George Andrews
This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week on Spotifyand Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated on either platform, and follow us to get all our new content as it’s released.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 China has taken the US’s crown for the world’s fastest supercomputer Shenzhen’s LineShine overtook California’s El Capitan. (Axios) + China had not had a machine at the top of the list since 2017. (NYT $) + But the supercomputer race isn’t geared for AI work. (Reuters $)
2 Mythos reportedly found flaws in classified US government systems A US official said Anthropic’s model identified certain vulnerabilities. (AP News) + The model has now been suspended over US security concerns. (BBC) + The NSA has lost access to Anthropic’s tools in fallout. (Engadget) + The feud raises new questions about AI safety. (MIT Technology Review)
3 A US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in “jellyfish” formation Which would represent an alarming advance in Iranian drone capabilities. (CNN) + The US is heading toward a drone-filled future. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app It will be similar to Polymarket and Kalshi. (NYT $) + But won’t let users wager real money. (The Verge) + Another new app, Meta Photos, will create media with AI. (Reuters $)
5 SpaceX’s “Starfall” just launched a secretive test flight The orbital delivery spacecraft blasted off for the first time yesterday. (Axios) + It could also support space manufacturing. (New Scientist $)
6 Alibaba has sued the US for being linked to the Chinese military It wants to be removed from a Pentagon blacklist. (Reuters $)
7 Nvidia’s banned AI chips have doubled in price on China’s black market The DGX B300 now costs more than $1.1 million. (Financial Times $)
8 Tesla claims a driver “manually overrode self-driving” in a deadly crash It said the accelerator was pressed “all the way to 100%.” (The Verge $)
9 The US science retreat has created an opportunity for Europe But questions about funding and innovation remain. (Nature) + Trump has dealt many blows to US science. (MIT Technology Review)
10 Meta’s new smart glasses ditch Ray-Bans for Kylie Jenner Meta logos and Jenner designs have replaced the Ray-Ban branding. (Wired $)
Quote of the day
“It’s blasphemy against AI if you say it’s a bubble.”
—SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son tells shareholders that the AI boom is still in its early stages, Reuters reports.
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ERIK CARTER
Video games are dividing South Korea
They say StarCraft was the game that changed everything. When the science fiction strategy game arrived in South Korea in 1998, it wasn’t just a hit—it was an awakening.
Out of 11 million copies sold worldwide, 4.5 million were in the country. The game was so popular that it triggered another boom: “PC bangs,” pay-as-you-go gaming cafés.
StarCraft and PC bangs spoke to a generation of young South Koreans boxed in by economic anxiety and rising academic pressures. But they also sparked arguments about game addiction. They’ve led to feuds between government departments—and a national debate over policy.
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A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had held back large language models for almost a decade.
The purported breakthrough comes from slashing the number of computations transformers need to carry out to generate answers. The result is a faster and cheaper LLM that uses far less energy than any other model on the market.
Many experts remained skeptical—but Subquadratic has started to share the receipts. They suggest that their approach might be worth paying attention to.
This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant. The device has enabled him to maintain an income, reconnect with friends and family, and read to his daughter. He told me that it’s “nothing short of revolutionary.”
Over the past couple of years, the number of BCI trial volunteers has soared. This year, China became the first country to approve a BCI for medical use. Advances in technology are allowing engineers to provide more features than ever. BCI research is properly taking off.
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Amazon workers who backed data center limits may face termination The engineers say they’re under investigation by the company. (NYT $) + And could face discipline, including potential termination. (The Verge) +They had testified at meetings about pausing data centers. (CNBC) + They’ve filed a joint complaint to Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights. (Wired $)
2 A new fossil discovery has rewritten 150 years of evolutionary theory It suggests early land vertebrates skipped the tadpole stage. (New Scientist $) + And raises questions about how vertebrates adapted to land. (404 Media) + Sponges may have been the first animals. (MIT Technology Review)
3 Bernie Sanders plans to give the public direct ownership of AI firms He’s unveiled new legislation to create an AI sovereign wealth fund. (AP News) + It would be funded through a one-time tax on AI companies’ stock. (Quartz) + And make annual payments directly to Americans. (Washington Post $)
4 Investors in China secretly acquired stakes in SpaceX before its IPO One had ties to Chinese military contractors. (ProPublica) + The US fears China has got one of ASML’s top machines. (Reuters $)
5 Researchers have figured out Russia’s nuclear-powered missile They call it “a terrible idea”—but not an impossible one. (NPR) + NASA is building a nuclear reactor-powered spacecraft. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Longevity medicine faces a do-or-die moment in a landmark trial It will test whether cellular aging can be safely reversed in humans. (Axios) + The next step is “chemical reprogramming.” (MIT Technology Review)
7 Studies suggest AI may already be deskilling professionals Over-reliance appears to weaken doctors’ and engineers’ abilities. (Nature)
8 Tech workers who maxed out their AI use are now trying to minimize it Spiralling costs mean “tokenminning” has replaced “tokenmaxxing.” (NYT $)
9 Scientists say the human genome’s structure may confound AI models Which would constrain AI-based models of biology and disease. (Quanta)
10 A new robotic self-driving toilet brings the bathroom to you The Xiaoban also cleans up and empties itself all on its own. (The Verge)
Quote of the day
“They hated me. They were doing everything they could to knock me down. And look at them now.”
—Donald Trump mocks Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos in a conversation with Elon Musk that’s recounted in a new book, Wired reports.
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PABLO DELCAN
Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit
The pandemic exposed the weak spots in our interconnected food system. They’re the result of decades’ worth of technological advances, from globe-spanning shipping to refrigeration networks. But technology is not inherently opposed to sustainable and resilient food systems.
Powerful technologies like genetic modification can create stronger local agriculture and a healthier food system—but they normally aren’t. The challenge is ensuring they serve food security and human well-being, rather than simply maximizing profits.
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