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The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised another customerAn unnamed client of a company that provides AI infrastructure, called Modal Labs.... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

While the tech community was sharply divided over the appeal of those disembodied hands, almost everyone can agree that a few things are decidedly not sexy: Grok’s porn-pilled translation feature, Meta’s creepy... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got... Read more »

Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix 

“Except for our two team leads, my entire team [of 30 people] just applied to SK Hynix,” Lee says, referring to a job posting the company published in July. Lee, who has... Read more »

OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. 

OpenAI has said the event was unprecedented—and in many ways it was. This was the first time outside of a simulation that LLMs escaped what was thought to be a secure sandbox,... Read more »

How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could tick up as major world powers like the US and China look to build new reactors, including some based... Read more »

The path to artificial superintelligence

“The gap is architectural, not a prompting problem,” Pandey adds. “Without the right coordination layer, naive multi-agent setups can perform worse than a single agent. The step change is that team of... Read more »

The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances

This story is from The Checkup, our weekly biotech newsletter. Sign upto receive it in your inbox every Thursday. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories... Read more »

Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI

Agentic AI is a larger systems problem, not just one of inference. The majority of existing agentic AI harnesses are limited and do not measure overall system performance. Plan capacity is done... Read more »

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Some vendors are starting to tackle this challenge. Belcher points to solutions like Cytiva’s Image Integrity Checker, for instance, which uses secure hash algorithms—the same technology used in blockchain—to detect whether scientific... Read more »