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. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been…
In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant possible. Over the past few weeks, there’s been big news about nuclear power plants trying to do just that. Constellation, the largest nuclear operator in the US, announced plans to add nearly a…
Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say scientists. They hope to replicate the findings with human organs. The kidneys—which are similar in size to human ones—were left in a glass-like state, in one…
Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or to pin down precisely where that…
At the Dublin International AI Summit, the European Commission announced that the EU AI Office had issued its first formal requests for information under the EU AI Act to OpenAI and Anthropic over two summer incidents involving AI agent overreach. The action tests how far the Act's R&D exemption applies when model testing escapes and affects the EU market.
Anthropic told potential investors at its IPO pre-roadshow that third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, up 45% quarter-over-quarter, and that it has reached adjusted profitability — its most complete financial disclosure to date ahead of a November listing.
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Mastiff, a Swedish production company, connected an AI agent to its editing servers before The Challenge Sverige was due to premiere, causing the entire edited season to be deleted and hundreds of days of work to be lost. TV4 has postponed the program’s broadcast to 2027.
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” […]
But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, ranking first on the Vals Index at 68.90%—though its lead over the nearest competitors is less than two percentage points. The introductory price is set to double on December 1, 2026.
AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.
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OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
