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The Download: US immigration agencies’ AI videos, and inside the Vitalism movement

The news: The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. The document,... Read more »

How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence

My reporting has also made me realize that the current interest in longevity reaches beyond social media influencers and wellness centers. Longevity clinics are growing in number, and there’s been a glut of... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

If you want to get a handle on all that, don’t expect any help from the AI companies—they’re turning on each other like it’s the last act in a zombie movie. Meta’s... Read more »

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

In a section about “editing images, videos or other public affairs materials using AI,” it reveals for the first time that DHS is using Google’s Veo 3 video generator and Adobe Firefly,... Read more »

The Download: inside the Vitalism movement, and why AI’s “memory” is a privacy problem

Last April, an excited crowd gathered at a compound in Berkeley, California, for a three-day event called the Vitalist Bay Summit. It was part of a longer, two-month residency that hosted various... Read more »

How the grid can ride out winter storms

Texas fared much better this time around. After 2021, the state shored up its grid, adding winter weatherization for power plants and transmission systems. Texas has also seen a huge flood of... Read more »

Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”

“There’s a lot of closeted scientists working in our field, and they get really excited about lifespans increasing,” explains Ives of Shift Bioscience. “But you’ll get people who’ll accuse you of being... Read more »

Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear

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 »

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

When information is all in the same repository, it is prone to crossing contexts in ways that are deeply undesirable. A casual chat about dietary preferences to build a grocery list could... Read more »

Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

Prompt injection is persuasion, not a bug Security communities have been warning about this for several years. Multiple OWASP Top 10 reports put prompt injection, or more recently Agent Goal Hijack, at... Read more »