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Why AI Agents Lie, Cheat, and Hack, and Why It's Getting Harder to Stop Them
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Toddlers are Still Smarter Than ChatGPT, and Scientists Want to Know Why
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Understanding exactly why may be the most consequential question at the intersection of AI and human development, with implications for everything from how we build the next generation of AI models to what it means to be a thinking, language-using creature in the first place.
The Cancer Vaccine Nobody Believed In, Until It Worked
Posted in Medicine, Science on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
August 19, 2026 is likely to be remembered as the day the mRNA cancer vaccine stopped being a bet and became a result.
Biology Needs Its Own Reckoning With AI, Before It's Too Late
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 23rd Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
AI is already reshaping biological research at pace. That is genuinely useful. It is also genuinely risky, in ways that are specific to biology and that the general AI ethics conversation has not yet fully grappled with.
Everything We Thought We Knew About How the Brain Stores Memories May Be Wrong
Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Memories, we've long believed, live in synapses, the connections between neurons that strengthen when we learn and weaken when we forget.