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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

Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness

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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

‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI

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SingularityHub – Melissa Lee • July 30, 2026 One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of last week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical

Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI

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SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • July 28, 2026 Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. Building new enzymes is a labor of love. These proteins are the body’s chemical workhorses, speeding up the reactions