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Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 8:23 PM
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AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could be

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 6:57 PM
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The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.  Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people to interact with the company’s Gemini chatbot that

Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 6:00 PM
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From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an automated intrusion engine, the coercion of human-in-the-loop agentic actions and fully autonomous agentic

The Download: A bid to treat blindness, and bridging the internet divide

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 5:10 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. The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” Life Biosciences, a small Boston startup

The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” 

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 10:08 PM
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When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk said he hasn’t put much time into the problem but suspects it is “very solvable” and that when scientists discover why we age, it’s going to

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 10:00 PM
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OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism, which embeds ChatGPT in a text editor for writing scientific papers. The idea is to put

Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 6:52 PM
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Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number could drop this year, thanks to tests of stratospheric airships, uncrewed aircraft, and other

The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 5:10 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. Inside OpenAI’s big play for science  —Will Douglas Heaven In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science 

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Monday, January 26, 2026 - 10:32 PM
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In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making

Why chatbots are starting to check your age

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Monday, January 26, 2026 - 9:05 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. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to