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The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem

Date
Tuesday, September 01, 2026 - 4:10 PM
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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. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

Date
Monday, August 31, 2026 - 10:00 PM
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their

The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

Date
Friday, August 28, 2026 - 4:35 PM
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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 startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a

The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

Date
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 - 11:00 PM
Description
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find