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• The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

  14-09-2026 19:54 via technologyreview.com
  
  This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its use in cyberattacks and bioterrorism to its potential to wreck the economy. The heads of the other three top US AI labs—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chairman Demis
  
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• Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive?

  14-09-2026 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Tom Gerken is hands-on with the latest virtual reality headset.
  
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• Donated livers can be made biologically younger

  14-09-2026 18:11 via technologyreview.com
  
  Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a matter of hours to get it into a recipient’s body.There’s another option—one that has been growing in popularity in recent years, especially for donated organs that aren’t in the healthiest state. Some hospitals opt to put them on machines that pu
  
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• What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?

  14-09-2026 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.
  
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• AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

  14-09-2026 18:00 via technologyreview.com
  
  A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in line. Researchers at frontier labs hope large swarms of agents working together will speed up the rate of scientific discovery. But their behavior can be
  
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• The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

  14-09-2026 14:10 via technologyreview.com
  
  This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
  Roundtables: could AI really kill us all?Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype?Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter Grace Huck
  
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• Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?

  14-09-2026 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Existential fears about AI have once again reared their head - here's what you need to know.
  
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