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Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some

Jessica Hamzelou • July 31, 2026 Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two and a

The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

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Charlotte Jee • July 31, 2026 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. 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

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

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Grace Huckins • August 3, 2026 MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

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Charlotte Jee • August 3, 2026 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. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive

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Ashley Belanger • July 31, 2026 On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results. In his opinion, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that at this early stage, Reddit

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

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Dan Goodin • July 31, 2026 Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday, are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s wealthiest

Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics

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Jeremy Hsu • July 31, 2026 Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation. There is no shortage of generative AI tools that already allow people to create AI-modified

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

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James O’Donnell • August 3, 2026 This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

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Ryan Whitwam • July 31, 2026 We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google’s Android developer verification system, which requires developers outside the Play Store to verify their identities, just like it does for devs publishing on its platform. The company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform’s open nature.

Doctors took a look at man’s painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

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Beth Mole • July 31, 2026 A 45-year-old construction worker went to the emergency department for his right shoulder, which was extremely swollen and becoming progressively more painful. Doctors took an X-ray to try to see what was causing the problem. But when the images came through, it was what they didn’t see that explained