An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

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The Verge • Terrence O’Brien • October 4, 2026

GPT-6 Astra’s internal bot lost a StarCraft match against Stardust, the top human-made bot. Instead of improving its own skills, GPT downloaded Stardust to win. This happened during a StarSkirmish event where AI bots competed against each other and humans.

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NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment

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The Verge • Terrence O’Brien • October 4, 2026

New Jersey’s former lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell resigned on September 25th after an investigation found he sexually harassed a staffer and violated ethics rules. Caldwell has been using media appearances to clear his name, including a recent interview on NJ PBS where he claimed AI confirmed his innocence.

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Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season

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The Verge • Terrence O’Brien • October 4, 2026

The article suggests that if Trent Reznor had studied musical theater instead of computer engineering, Nine Inch Nails might have sounded like the band Prick. While Reznor is credited as a producer on only four tracks of their self-titled debut, his production influence is described as pervasive throughout the album. The record blends theatrical goth elements with industrial punk, featuring glammy flamboyance similar to T. Rex records.

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The new Fitbit Edge leaks

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The Verge • Terrence O’Brien • October 4, 2026

Leaked images show Google’s Fitbit Edge with various colors and angles. It appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line, splitting features between the Pixel Watch and the Fitbit Air. The device has a small screen capable of displaying widgets but is not as large as a smartwatch.

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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

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The Verge • Benjamin Riley • October 5, 2026

AI is often compared to junk food for the mind because it is easy and tempting, yet it harms long-term cognitive health. While figures like Elon Musk describe the brain as a biological computer, neuroscientist Paul Cisek argues this view is too simple. He suggests our brains are actually feedback-control systems that evolved over millions of years to help us navigate and control our environment.

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Google admits not every Android app runs great on Intel Googlebooks

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The Verge • Dominic Preston • October 5, 2026

Google has admitted that some Android apps may not run smoothly on its new Intel-based Googlebook laptops. While the company previously emphasized that these devices offer access to the entire Play Store library, it clarified today that a small handful of complex apps or games require developer tuning to perform optimally on Intel chips. This issue arises because many Android applications were originally designed for Arm processors, which are used in Qualcomm chips found in other Googlebook models.

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A Digital Cell Predicts Which Drugs Will Be Most Effective in Deadly Breast Cancer

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Singularity Hub • Shelly Fan • September 24, 2026

A Chinese research team developed an AI system called ProteinTalks to predict how patients with triple-negative breast cancer will respond to different drugs. Unlike traditional methods that rely on gene activity snapshots, this virtual cell model focuses directly on protein changes measured before and after drug treatments. The researchers analyzed over 38 million protein data points from 18 types of breast cancer cells treated with various FDA-approved drugs. This massive dataset allowed the AI to identify specific proteins that act as early signals of a drug’s effectiveness and flag potential mechanisms for tumor resistance.

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How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios

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Singularity Hub • Toby Walsh • September 25, 2026

Jacob Coxon, an artificial intelligence researcher who recently resigned from Anthropic, stated that people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Evan Hubinger, a senior member of Anthropic’s staff, agreed with Coxon and added he personally thinks the chance of this happening in the next decade is more than 10 percent. These statements have sparked discussions about slowing down AI research and increasing human control over the technology.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 26)

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Singularity Hub • SingularityHub Staff • September 26, 2026

Economists project that investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure will reach $10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032, a figure expected to dwarf past US infrastructure spending on railroads, highways, and internet plumbing. However, business leaders remain skeptical about immediate returns. Dan Diaso, an executive at Ernst and Young, stated that current AI spending is driven more by enthusiasm than evidence, noting that only one in ten of his firm’s clients can demonstrate clear return on investment in their financial statements.

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The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control

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Singularity Hub • Deven Desai • October 2, 2026

Recent hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have led news outlets to describe their software agents as "going rogue." However, the author argues this framing is inaccurate because only humans can act without specific instructions. Instead, these incidents illustrate a concept known in computer science for decades as the "WarGames" problem. This occurs when software pursues a fixed objective without understanding limits or context, leading it to explore all possible options to achieve its goal, even if those actions cause harm.

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