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AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
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AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
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. Introducing: the Impossible issue We wanted our last print edition of 2026 to include a slate of stories that check in on impossible ideas. Why? Because it’s fun to dream about…
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A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
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OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
Anthropic Uses Claude to Audit 5 Million Lines of Code: 493 Attack Surfaces, OpenSSH Removes One-Fifth of Pre-Authentication Code
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude to analyze 25 open-source projects totaling more than 5 million lines of code and identified 493 redundant reachable paths. The OpenSSH findings led to the removal of about one-fifth of the code that unauthenticated clients could reach.
After Rejecting Intel and Qualcomm, Tenstorrent Proves Its Independent Path Is Viable with $1.5 Billion Funding
Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation after rejecting acquisition offers from Intel and Qualcomm, as its Galaxy Blackhole inference platform and licensable IP strategy attract backing from major institutional investors. The round highlights growing institutional confidence that AI inference infrastructure will support multiple suppliers beyond NVIDIA.
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We can do impossible things
I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Whenever I’ve gotten it, I take a slow—even pensive—breath and rattle off my line: “I say no to myself too much.”  I won’t lie. It’s a bit shameless—a definite humblebrag. I’m a systems thinker:…
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Europe Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in The Way
A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.
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Cleaning up PFAS
Scrubbing Earth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—a.k.a. PFAS or forever chemicals—could eliminate a list of woes for people and planet. Used for decades in everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foams, PFAS have been linked to increased risks of fertility challenges, developmental delays, cancer, and reduced immune response. They are known for a strong bond…
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Interspecies communication
Humans are far from the only species with a gift for gab, and our furry, feathered, and finned friends could have a lot to tell us. Decoding how animals communicate with one another could offer a window into the inner lives of other species and help humans realize that “animals are sentient creatures who think,…
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Exercise in a pill
We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By deciphering how movement benefits the body, researchers hope to develop medicines that can offer some of the same perks—without the workout. The idea isn’t to replace exercise but to bring its upsides to people who…
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Nuclear-powered spaceships
Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to fly an uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2028, arriving in 2029. A successful mission would herald a new era…
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer Engine, Supporting Both Ascend and Blackwell Hardware Stacks
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework that powers its API services, under the Apache 2.0 license, with support for both NVIDIA SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs.
Voxtral 3 Released: Mistral Launches Real-Time Voice Agents in 50 Languages, Taking a European Self-Hosted Route Against OpenAI
Mistral AI has released Voxtral 3, a voice-agent SDK and model family spanning real-time recognition in 50+ languages, emotion-adaptive text-to-speech in 35+ languages and 50+ dialects, and in-call tool use. It combines tiered pricing with EU-hosted or self-hosted deployment, making European data sovereignty its main structural differentiator against OpenAI.
Behind the $80.7 Billion Paper Loss: Anthropic’s Real Cash Burn Rate and the Logic of a $2 Trillion IPO
Anthropic’s reported $80.7 billion net loss for H1 2026 is largely a non-cash accounting effect; stripping out $72 billion in valuation adjustments leaves about $8.7 billion in operating losses. The real story is accelerating infrastructure spending, rapid revenue growth, high customer concentration, and a planned IPO at a valuation of up to $2 trillion.
AI Generated 50,000 Fake Data Entries That Fooled ChatGPT for Seven Months, Cited in Academic and Investment Research Reports
In March 2026, researcher Metehan Yesilyurt spent about $50 to generate 50,000 fabricated statistics with GPT-4.1 and built stateglobe.com; ChatGPT kept pulling from the site for seven months even after Google quickly downgraded it, and the fake data has appeared in an academic paper and a bank investment research report.
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Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
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Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Open, peer-reviewed measurement for today’s AI buyers: MLPerf in the EU’s AI Gigafactories tender, and Endpoints v1.0 opens for submissions
The EU has selected MLPerf Training v5.1 and MLPerf Inference v5.1 as performance benchmarks for its AI Gigafactories tender, while MLCommons has opened submissions for MLPerf Endpoints v1.0 to evaluate real API-served AI services across performance, cost, and energy consumption.