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The Download: the “steroid olympics” and a safer Mythos

A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life. The inaugural Enhanced Games... Read more »

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Like Kerley, sprinter Tristan Evelyn from Barbados competed without taking any drugs. She too won big in Vegas, besting her Enhanced peers in two events.SAEED RAHBARAN One thing the athletes wouldn’t talk... Read more »

The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI

Sinclair, a biologist at Harvard Medical School, plans to launch the tests in a $101 million competition organized by the XPrize Foundation. The winners will “restore” a person to an earlier apparent... Read more »

Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise

Human employees have more time to focus on work “that requires a creative and imaginative mind and cross-functional collaboration, leveraging diverse ideas and thoughts to problem-solve,” says Jayaswal. The AI agent, meanwhile,... Read more »

David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in the XPrize competition

Justice says a judging panel is now in the process of picking 10 finalists from 65 teams that have been exploring health foods, lifestyle interventions, digital trackers, and drug compounds.  Sinclair’s team,... Read more »

Five things you need to know about AI

4. AI for science is a very big deal. It’s early days yet, but the potential for AI to help make a genuine and important scientific discovery is greater than ever. Google... Read more »

The Download: how the World Cup ball will fly and OpenAI’s “super app”

3 Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $30 billion for AI computing powerThe $920 million-a-month contract runs through June 2029. (NYT $)+ Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs owned by SpaceX.... Read more »

Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far

“The simple picture is that Trionda may very slightly punish extreme distance, but it should reward clean technique and predictable flight,” says team member John Eric Goff, who researches sports physics and... Read more »

The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots’ impact on our brains

This story is from The Checkup, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things biotech. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Thursday. The must-reads I’ve combed... Read more »

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while. They publish papers and blog posts detailing exploits such as indirect prompt injection, which... Read more »