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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.

Child monitoring apps scanned 11B messages in 2025. A $1.57B market is growing fast, but surveillance carries real costs for kids.

OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices to counter Chinese AI rivals, Flock adds surveillance rules with gaps, and a researcher fights to map children’s cells.

Bioinformatician Deanne Taylor helped win a $38.5M NIH grant to build the first gene expression database for healthy children. The gap had existed for decades.

A State Department disinformation office was shut down April 16, 2025, after being labeled part of the “censorship-industrial complex.” The fallout is reshaping U.S. policy and the internet.

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.

Google restructures DeepMind leadership, shifts AI strategy toward agentic systems, as Jeff Dean departs after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop.

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.