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The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

Date
Friday, September 25, 2026 - 1:16 PM
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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that

The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week

Date
Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
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 congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program Delia Ramirez, a Democratic

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Date
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 - 1:00 PM
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Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer

The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”

Date
Monday, September 21, 2026 - 4:20 PM
Description
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. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales