The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murderThe tip was in a... Read more »

Autonomy will be there right from the start. NASA’s new version of the moon buggy, its Lunar Terrain Vehicle, can be driven by the astronauts riding in it but can also be... Read more »

For example, previous research had shown that fast-growing “pioneer trees,” the first to thrive in the damaged land, are eventually overtaken by larger carbon-storing trees. Dent’s research helped fill in gaps about... Read more »

8 Peter Thiel is using biblical prophecy to argue against AI regulationHis new “Antichrist” lecture casts AI safety as a threat to freedom. (Politico) 9 MIT’s Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land... Read more »

A collaborative mindset At first, the biggest challenge was trusting the technology. “On the manned-­aircraft side, they tell you ‘Don’t trust the automation,’” Wischnewsky says. The Dallas–Fort Worth area, though, is a... Read more »

I’ve heard people in the aging field describe GLP-1s as longevity drugs for a while now (even if they only benefit people who are overweight or diabetic in the first place). This... Read more »

If a trillion-dollar company doesn’t want you to be mean to its computer, so be it. “The reality is that these models behave, or at least are supposed to behave, in the... Read more »

Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to... Read more »

They argue that such assumptions minimize the challenges of using an intelligence built on language and images to master the infinite variability of the physical world. They also point out that conflating... Read more »