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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 29)

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Artificial Intelligence

Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not.

Edd Gent
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Artificial Intelligence

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice.

Genevieve Grant
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Science

Mini Brains Grown for Five Years Matured Like Human Brains

Shelly Fan
Unitree robot sprinting on a track beats Usain Bolt's human speed record.
Robotics

Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt

Edd Gent
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Science

We May Be Wrong About How the Brain Stores Memory

Shelly Fan
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Artificial Intelligence

Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy.

Liming Zhu
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What we’re reading

Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Wired ($)
Biotechnology
Researchers Get Two Genetic Codes to Work at the Same Time
Ars Technica
Biotechnology
An Experimental Single-Time Treatment Slashed Cholesterol for a Year
The New York Times ($)
Space
SpaceX Plans to Build the World’s Biggest Spaceport
The Economist ($)
Biotechnology
A Startup Claims It’s Found a Drug to Make Your Blood Young
MIT Technology Review ($)
Computing
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
Wired ($)
Robotics
I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
Wired ($)
Artificial Intelligence
AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement Might Not Come So Quickly After All
MIT Technology Review ($)
Tech
Walmart Is 3D Printing the Future of Big Box Stores
Fast Company
Space
The Floodgates Are Open After Another Chinese Company Lands a Reusable Rocket
Ars Technica
Robotics
Robotaxis Are Real Now—So Is the Pushback
The Verge
Artificial Intelligence
Kids Outlearn AI—and We Still Don’t Know Why
MIT Technology Review ($)
Future
Fully Autonomous Russian Drone Kills Three Ukrainians
Semafor
Future
Attacked by AI Agents, This Start-Up Embarked on a Crusade
The New York Times ($)
Biotechnology
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown
Quanta Magazine

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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begun

Edd Gent
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Robotics

New Algae Robots Swarm Like Locusts at the Flick of a Switch

Shelly Fan
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Artificial Intelligence

You Probably Wouldn’t Notice if a Chatbot Slipped Ads Into Its Responses

Brian Jay Tang
and
Kang G. Shin
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Biotechnology

All Life Uses 20 Amino Acids. Scientists Just Deleted One in Bacteria.

Shelly Fan
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Computing

Quantum Computers Are Coming to Break Cryptography Faster Than Anyone Expected

Craig Costello
Honor robot beats human record for half marathon in Beijing China
Robotics

A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon

Edd Gent
Artificial neurons printed on a polymer sheet
Artificial Intelligence

Printed Neurons That Mimic Brain Cells Could Slash AI’s Energy Bill

Edd Gent
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Future

Industries Most Exposed to AI Are Not Only Seeing Productivity Gains but Jobs and Wage Growth Too

Christos Makridis
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Biotechnology

One Shot Just Crushed Three Deadly Autoimmune Diseases

Shelly Fan
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Computing

Anthropic’s Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser

Edd Gent
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Computing

US Issues Grand Challenge: The First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2028

Edd Gent
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An explosive design of black lines from a central point on a teal background

Are We on the Verge of an Intelligence Explosion? Maybe Not.

Edd Gent
A wooden judge's gavel sits on a marble table

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice.

Genevieve Grant
Colorful onscreen static

Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy.

Liming Zhu
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DeepMind’s Weather AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier Than Traditional Forecasting

Shelly Fan
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Sam Altman Says We’re ‘in the Singularity’ With AI. Here’s Why He’s Wrong.

Kai Riemer
and
Sandra Peter
‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI

‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI

Melissa Lee
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