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The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

Charlotte Jee • July 29, 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. 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

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

The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

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

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

The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

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

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

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics