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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
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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. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales

The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat

Date
Friday, September 18, 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. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live

The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech

Date
Friday, September 18, 2026 - 1:00 PM
Description
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO

The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

Date
Thursday, September 17, 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. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around