Semafor • Sep 21, 2025
AI-designed viruses mark step toward AI-generated life
Scientists used AI to design viruses for the first time, creating bacteriophages capable of hunting down and killing harmful bacteria.
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Mother Jones • Sep 21, 2025
TikTok’s Algorithm Will Soon Be “Controlled By America”
After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the detail on Saturday, a key aspect of the emerging agreement announced by the Trump administration last week between the […]
Lever News • Sep 20, 2025
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Side Effects May Include FDA Crackdowns
Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up.
Lever News • Sep 19, 2025
Escape the pop-up apocalypse.
Distracting, frustrating, and turns browsing into a constant battle.
Semafor • Sep 19, 2025
Meta's new glasses challenge Apple's dominance
It doesn’t make sense for Apple to hand this victory to Meta, even if Tim Cook is fighting a US Justice Department antitrust lawsuit.
Semafor • Sep 19, 2025
AI is not just a chatbot, Adobe exec tells policymakers
The company's chief legal officer is among several tech execs making the rounds in DC to widen the aperture of how regulators think about AI.
Semafor • Sep 19, 2025
How Medium plans to use AI to pay creators more fairly
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine told Semafor he's a self-described AI hater, but is still embracing it.
Semafor • Sep 19, 2025
China advances brain implant technology
China has an advantage when it comes to making advances in brain implants: a whole government approach that cuts through red tape.
Semafor • Sep 19, 2025
Mad Men GPT: AI creative studios are drawing investors and consumer eyeballs
AI is moving beyond brainstorm and research and into full ad production, with campaigns built entirely from machine-generated imagery.
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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm
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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
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NASA’s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing
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Building with air – how nature’s hole-filled blueprints shape manufacturing
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Whether it’s Valentine’s Day notes or emails to loved ones, using AI to write leaves people feeling crummy about themselves
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From ski jumping to speedskating, winter sports represent physics in action
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Is the whole universe just a simulation?
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Trump’s IRS Leak Suit Pulls Back the Curtain on a Government That Can’t Protect Its Own Data
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Short on resources, special educators are using AI – with little knowledge of the effects
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