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Moltbook was peak AI theater

“Despite some of the hype, Moltbook is not the Facebook for AI agents, nor is it a place where humans are excluded,” says Cobus Greyling at Kore.ai, a firm developing agent-based systems... Read more »

The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

An experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies after they’ve had  treatment for bowel or rectal cancer. Radiation and chemo can have pretty damaging side effects that mess up the uterus... Read more »

An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth

It seems to work! Last week, a team in Switzerland shared news that a baby boy had been born after his mother had the procedure. Baby Lucien was the fifth baby to be... Read more »

Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS

That reality has led to bottlenecks and maintenance burdens, and the impact is showing up in performance. Today, fewer than half of CIOs (48%) say their current digital initiatives are meeting or... Read more »

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an AI research nonprofit whose name stands for... Read more »

Three questions about next-generation nuclear power, answered

A recent NPR investigation found that the Trump administration had secretly rewritten nuclear rules, stripping environmental protections and loosening safety and security measures. The government shared the new rules with companies that... Read more »

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

To understand exactly what model time horizons are, it helps to know all the work that METR put into calculating them. First, the METR team assembled a collection of tasks ranging from... Read more »

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models A common anti-pattern is to give the model a long-lived credential and hope prompts keep it polite. SAIF and NIST argue... Read more »

The Download: the future of nuclear power plants, and social media-fueled AI hype

AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power... Read more »

The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for... Read more »