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The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.  1 California has defied Trump to impose new AI regulations Governor Newsom signed off on the new standards yesterday.  (Guardian) + Firms seeking... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time

“As a proof of concept, it is impressive,” says Keren Ladin, a bioethicist who has focused on organ transplantation and perfusion at Tufts University. “These are early days.” It might not sound... Read more »

Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death

Then there’s the cost. Alcor charges $80,000 to store a person’s brain, and around $220,000 to store a whole body. Tomorrow.Bio’s charges are slightly higher. Many people, including Kendziorra himself, opt to cover this... Read more »

Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

Then again, maybe that won’t quite do the trick: One survey from Cox Automotive found that most US consumers would consider switching to an EV or hybrid if gas prices hit $6... Read more »

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

And when Charton solved the Turán problem with PatternBoost, he was still at Meta. “I had literally thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of machines I could run it on,” he says. “It... Read more »

Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

Product truth: If the catalog is inconsistent, an agent’s choices will look arbitrary (“the wrong shirt,” “the wrong size,” “the wrong material”), and trust collapses quickly. Payee truth: Agentic commerce expands beyond... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

On the lighter side, AI agents are now going viral online. OpenAI hired the creator of OpenClaw, a popular AI agent. Meta snapped up Moltbook, where AI agents seem to ponder their... Read more »