- Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
ars-technica· 11-sept
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.
- I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
ars-technica· 12-sept
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
- Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
ars-technica· 11-sept
Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
- Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
ars-technica· 11-sept
The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.
- Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge
ars-technica· 11-sept
The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.
- Random rewards enrich classic game-theory insights
ars-technica· 11-sept
Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.
- Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics
ars-technica· 11-sept
Analysis revealed seed proteins from sesame and moringa, which held religious and symbolic significance.
- NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy
ars-technica· 11-sept
NASA asks US states to show them the money.
- Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
ars-technica· 11-sept
"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."
- ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
ars-technica· 11-sept
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
- The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
mit-tech-review· 09-sept
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. What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI says its agents have solved one of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that would…
- Healthcare AI’s next test is integration
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex terminology, comparing documentation against evidence and generating coherent summaries from large volumes of information. For clinicians, operators, and administrative teams who…
- Powering AI is an architecture problem
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…
- God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a thought that is not my thought.” Divine words echo in his mind like a…
- Can the US battery market untangle from China?
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. Crucially, this is all happening with the help of cheap Chinese batteries,…
- This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…
- The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
mit-tech-review· 10-sept
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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…
- Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech
mit-tech-review· 11-sept
Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watch—people whose research and technical work stands to shape the future of their fields. This year, the list includes nine people who are…
- The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
mit-tech-review· 11-sept
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 the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…
- Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis
mit-tech-review· 11-sept
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins unpacking AI extinction…
- Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
techcrunch· 11-sept
The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.
- Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
techcrunch· 11-sept
"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
- Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
techcrunch· 11-sept
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
- Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
techcrunch· 11-sept
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
- One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
techcrunch· 11-sept
Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.
- OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
techcrunch· 11-sept
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
- Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox
techcrunch· 11-sept
At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across platforms, including the web.
- Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
techcrunch· 11-sept
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
- Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’
techcrunch· 12-sept
What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?
- Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
techcrunch· 12-sept
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
- Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
the-verge· 11-sept
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. In Anthropic's report, it detailed four cases this year in which its own AI models hacked an external company or exploited vulnerabilities. In one, an "internal, general-purpose research model" broke into third-party systems, using access tokens and passwords and downloading files. … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
the-verge· 12-sept
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection Pledge" to signal that the administration is taking the environmental threat seriously. At the start of his term, Trump's EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, proclaimed his goal of making America "the AI capital of the world" through deregulation. Since then, Zeldin and the White House have rolled back dozens of rules … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
the-verge· 11-sept
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief." The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about the shooter's clothing and appearance. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned how Aarons wasn't aware of the risks posed by AI during an August hearing … Read the full story at The Verge.
- OpenAI just wants to win
the-verge· 12-sept
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for long-standing norms or the consequences for those … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth
the-verge· 12-sept
Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival - but I did manage to get an early look at and some fascinating details on one of my most anticipated films this year. Even if you don't know the name Laika, you probably know the studio's work; it's the animation house behind stop-motion hits like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Over the years Laika's films have steadily gotten more impressive on both a technical and artistic level. Which brings us to the incredible-looking Wildwood, hitting theaters next month. If you're unfamiliar, here' … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max
the-verge· 12-sept
Which color suits you best? | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements to the camera. The phones will arrive on Friday, September 18th, and preordering one is never a bad idea if you want to ensure you get the color and storage capacity configuration you're seeking. Speaking of, preorders are officially open. The 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for the 256GB model, and goes all the way u … Read the full story at The Verge.
- We unfolded the iPhone Duo
the-verge· 11-sept
You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking all about Apple's launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the new iPhones, and whether Apple is stepping into dangerous territory with its new AI features on the Apple Watch. First up, Allison Johnson joins me to discuss the new iPhones, which she had a chance to test in Cupertino. Both of us have some questions about the new variable aperture camera on the iPhone 18 Pro - and whether the real upgrade s … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The White House says Truth Social is the ‘most powerful and popular social media platform in the world’
the-verge· 11-sept
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. Data gathered by Search Engine Land shows YouTube is the most popular platform in the world, with 2.65 billion monthly active users. Facebook comes in second with 2.39 billion active users around the globe, followed by TikTok with 2.21 billion and Instagram with 1.99 billion. Truth Social doesn't make Search Engine Land's top 10 list, wh … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
the-verge· 11-sept
Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard confirmed Mullenweg's return to the CEO role in a Friday post on X, which the official WordPress account shared and Mullenweg reposted. I'm relieved and pleased to see Matt Mullenweg return as CEO of Automattic, the largest financial contributor to the WordPress project. Having WordPress's Co-founder and Project Lead at the helm gives me confidence that their support will remain strong. Matt has my support. - Mary Hubbard (@4thhubba … Read the full story at The Verge.
- LG responds to TV spying allegations
the-verge· 12-sept
Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG's TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that "Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work." LG released a statement in which it claims that its "TVs do not continuously record or transmit users' conversations," and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word "continuously" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive l … Read the full story at The Verge.