Leopards recover in Zambia as communities swap skins for synthetics

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What went right this week: global road safety progress, plus more

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Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era

SingularityHub – Edd Gent • July 20, 2026 Cambridge University researchers say launch costs fell from $87,000 to $3,868 per kilogram between 1960 and 2025—or roughly 96%—and could hit $273 by 2040. Rapidly falling launch costs are making space more accessible than ever. But new research suggests the economics are improving even faster than most

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The musicians turning bat calls into club music

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How community football is helping youth stay out of trouble

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Weak AI Regulation Could Be Worse Than None at All

SingularityHub – Edd Gent • July 27, 2026 A Cornell University study uses game theory to model how poorly designed AI regulation could backfire. Governments around the world are racing to regulate AI before it becomes too deeply embedded in society. But new research suggests poorly designed rules could make AI systems less safe than

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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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OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

SingularityHub – Hussein Abbass • July 23, 2026 The incident is a first and signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity. An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s

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Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab

SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • July 22, 2026 Researchers could use lab-grown sperm to develop infertility treatments or, more controversially, make babies. Scientists just transformed a living mouse’s kidney into an incubator for developing human sperm made from blood cells. It sounds like sci-fi Mad Libs. But a team at the University of Pennsylvania, led

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