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Disney gives TikTok creators official access to Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters

Jess Weatherbed • August 5, 2026 Disney is introducing fan-created TikTok content to its Disney Plus app in its latest attempt to break into short-form creator videos. The Walt Disney Company announced today that it’s partnering with TikTok to bring “an expansive collection of thoughtfully curated Disney-centric fan-created content” to the Verts video feed it

The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

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Charlotte Jee • July 30, 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. 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

Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward

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Jessica Hamzelou • July 30, 2026 As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it to consumers. 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.

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

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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

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: 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

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

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

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Disney gives TikTok creators official access to Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters

The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward

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

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

The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

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

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive