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How law enforcement is using old statutes to fight deepfake pornography

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

Wired·1w ago

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Reversing liver aging could reshape transplant medicine’s time crunch

Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a matter of hours to get it into a recipient’s body. There’s another option—one that h

MIT Technology Review·1w ago

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Google DeepMind’s AI agents spontaneously enforced norms among themselves

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep

MIT Technology Review·1w ago

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AI researchers inside leading labs are now openly raising extinction risk concerns

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. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI

MIT Technology Review·1w ago

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Air purifier market expands beyond niche as tested roundups gain influence

Protect your home against dust, pets, allergens, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.

Wired·1w ago

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Measles death in Pennsylvania exposes gaps in US vaccine coverage

Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

Ars Technica·1w ago

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Insight Partners bets on AI breadth while rivals chase foundation model winners

Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

TechCrunch·1w ago

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Ellison’s aborted $7.5B Oracle stock sale signals confidence in cloud AI pivot

Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.

TechCrunch·1w ago

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Why deep tech is dominating Y Combinator’s latest funding conversation

From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.

TechCrunch·1w ago

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Trump administration signals AI regulation skepticism will shape policy debates

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's prop

The Verge·1w ago

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How AI companies weaponize existential risk for competitive advantage

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

TechCrunch·1w ago

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Apple considers Beats controller to reshape mobile gaming

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some time. But last week, MacRumors reported finding two references in macOS 26.7's cod

The Verge·1w ago

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