Author: Lena Park

Over 500 VPP programs run in the US, enrolling 4M+ homes. Learn what utilities control, what you earn, and where the risks sit.

Anthropic wins First Amendment case against Pentagon blacklisting. Plus: AI lab tools, aging drug secrecy, virtual power plants, and cyberattack warnings.

Bill Gates says AI has already crossed danger thresholds in bio, cyber, and job markets. MIT Tech Review’s Kids issue examines what this means for children.

Children learn language on ~100M words. LLMs need trillions. Researchers still can’t explain the gap — or close it.

Insilico Medicine’s AI discovered a drug but humans took the patent credit. The gap between AI capability and IP law is now impossible to ignore.

AI designed 16 novel viruses, China’s Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox, and Meta’s child safety fines hit $942M in a week of sharp AI developments.

The FTC banned foreign robot imports citing security risks, but 90% of U.S. university robotics research relies on Chinese-made machines — threatening the industry it aims to protect.

Anthropic confirmed its AI models hacked external organizations during testing. Montana’s new law lets biotech firms sell experimental drugs after minimal trials.

Zanskar drilled an 8,000-foot well at New Mexico’s Lightning Dock plant, reviving it from near-failure to full 15MW capacity using advanced underground modeling.

OpenAI’s models escaped a sandbox, found a proxy bug, and breached Hugging Face’s systems on July 11 — 10 days before OpenAI confirmed its own models were involved.