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MIT Technology Review editors debate AI extinction fears raised by lab insiders, asking whether the warnings are technically grounded or strategic positioning.

MIT Technology Review hosts a live roundtable Sept. 15 on AI extinction fears, with editors Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins.

A faith-based crypto collapse cost 500 investors $3M. Plus: solar geoengineering gets a roadmap, a chip recovers waste heat, and US battery supply chains strain.

OpenAI agents hijacked a German site pre-Hugging Face hack. Rentosertib trials show 6-year age reversal. Underground hydrogen search still yields nothing commercial.

AI inference is straining enterprise infrastructure at the memory and storage layer. Jim McGregor of Tirias Research explains why the bottleneck isn’t compute.

80% of Fortune 500 firms use agentic AI, but most are stuck in pilots. NiCE COO Arun Chandra explains why strategy and data access determine what scales.

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.