This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25)

SingularityHub – SingularityHub Staff • July 25, 2026 Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Says Its AI Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital LibraryKate Conger | The New York Times ($) “The trial was designed to keep the models in a safe testing environment, known as a sandbox, OpenAI said. But the models found a vulnerability that

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Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI

SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • July 24, 2026 To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind’s AlphaFold. Gene editing is like a molecular meet cute. When protein “scissors” dock onto the intended gene, even a tiny slip—no more than the width of a hydrogen atom—can ruin the connection, and

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 1)

SingularityHub – SingularityHub Staff • August 1, 2026 Artificial Intelligence OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human ErrorLily Hay Newman | Wired ($) “If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies. …’A simple analysis

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Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness

SingularityHub – Edd Gent • July 31, 2026 An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. Age-related vision loss affects millions of people, and so far, there has been no way to reverse the damage. A newly approved retinal implant could change that by

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‘A place of hope and solutions’: the building promising a better future

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The upside of the global energy crisis

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‘It’s brought a sense of community back to the town’

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What went right this week: the good news that matters

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Did a tourist tax save Magaluf?

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A new measure of courage: how Maasai warriors became lion guardians

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