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Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amd-agent-swarms">From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 17 Aug 2026 &#8212; by Andrej Zdravkovic</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content">How Claude marks AI-generated content</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Claude Support &#8212; 10 Aug 2026 &#8212; by Anthropic</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/layoffs-tied-to-ai-hurt-worker-productivity-and-the-reason-may-surprise-managers-286749">Layoffs tied to AI hurt worker productivity &#8211; and the reason may surprise managers</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 12 Aug 2026 &#8212; by Mark Ma</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/china-is-shaping-the-future-of-open-source-technology-including-ai-288061">China is shaping the future of open&#8209;source technology &#8211; including AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 12 Aug 2026 - by Christopher K. Tong</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/meta-ai-model-hack-training">Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 6 Aug 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-ai-is-changing-programming-language-usage/">How AI is Changing Programming Language Usage</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications of the ACM &#8212; 21 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Jennifer Goforth Gregory</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-origins-of-gpu-computing/">The Origins of GPU Computing</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications of the ACM &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by William J. Dally, Pat Hanrahan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-llvm-compiler-infrastructure/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications of the ACM &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Vikram S. Adve, Chris Lattner</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/">A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 30 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Will Douglas Heaven</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/">OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. 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21 Apr 2026 &#8212; Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://blog.stackademic.com/open-source-llms-in-2026-the-free-ai-models-everyone-will-be-using-while-youre-still-overpaying-29cdfe3bff63">Open-Source LLMs in 2026: The Free AI Models Everyone Will Be Using While You&#8217;re Still Overpaying</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Medium &#8212; 6 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Anurag Goel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetometers-hidonix-astranav-gps-alternative">Standalone Magnetometry Is the New GPS: Companies are turning the tiny compasses in phones into full navigation alternatives</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 2 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Lucas Laursen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html">Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Arjun Kharpal</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/world-cup-technology-from-ref-cams-to-ai-analysts-cutting-edge-research-is-changing-the-game-285399">World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting&#8209;edge research is changing the game</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 22 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Thomas Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA">How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?</a></strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 25 Jun 2026 &#8212; by David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/13/anthropic-disable-advanced-ai-models-us-government-order">Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o">Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Harry Sekulichand, Shiona McCallum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/">The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in TechChurch &#8212; 15 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Connie Loizos</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science">How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o">Version of AI tool &#8216;too powerful for public&#8217; released to public</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Kali Hays</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/un-report-warns-ai-could-soon-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-and-more-water-than-we-need-to-drink-284442">UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world&#8217;s electricity and more water than we need to drink</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 4 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Amanda Turnbull-McRae</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-hgv">Inside the Software Making Electric Heavy Trucks Practical</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 27 May 2026 &#8212; by Benjamin Skuse</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 103, 15-8-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-103-15-8-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-103-15-8-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:01:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k_rd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb05b6043-497a-4b61-80ef-a8e5b2a94819_1152x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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21 Apr 2026 &#8212; Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://blog.stackademic.com/open-source-llms-in-2026-the-free-ai-models-everyone-will-be-using-while-youre-still-overpaying-29cdfe3bff63">Open-Source LLMs in 2026: The Free AI Models Everyone Will Be Using While You&#8217;re Still Overpaying</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Medium &#8212; 6 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Anurag Goel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetometers-hidonix-astranav-gps-alternative">Standalone Magnetometry Is the New GPS: Companies are turning the tiny compasses in phones into full navigation alternatives</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 2 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Lucas Laursen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html">Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Arjun Kharpal</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/world-cup-technology-from-ref-cams-to-ai-analysts-cutting-edge-research-is-changing-the-game-285399">World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting&#8209;edge research is changing the game</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 22 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Thomas Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA">How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?</a></strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 25 Jun 2026 &#8212; by David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/13/anthropic-disable-advanced-ai-models-us-government-order">Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o">Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Harry Sekulichand, Shiona McCallum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/">The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in TechChurch &#8212; 15 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Connie Loizos</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science">How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o">Version of AI tool &#8216;too powerful for public&#8217; released to public</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Kali Hays</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/un-report-warns-ai-could-soon-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-and-more-water-than-we-need-to-drink-284442">UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world&#8217;s electricity and more water than we need to drink</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 4 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Amanda Turnbull-McRae</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-hgv">Inside the Software Making Electric Heavy Trucks Practical</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 27 May 2026 &#8212; by Benjamin Skuse</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 102, 8-8-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-102-8-8-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-102-8-8-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:00:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k_rd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb05b6043-497a-4b61-80ef-a8e5b2a94819_1152x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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Dally, Pat Hanrahan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-llvm-compiler-infrastructure/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications of the ACM &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Vikram S. Adve, Chris Lattner</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/">A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 30 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Will Douglas Heaven</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/">OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we&#8217;ve been here before.</a></strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 27 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Will Douglas Heaven</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device">A Hacker&#8217;s Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in PC Magazine &#8212; 6 July 2026 &#8212;  Michael Kan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-power-of-10-new-rules-for-the-digital-world/">The Power of 10: New Rules for the Digital World</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Communications &#8212; 24 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Sarah Spiekermann Hoff, Marc Langheinrich, Johannes Hoff, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/artificial-intelligence-for-software-engineering-from-probable-to-provable/">Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering: From Probable to Provable</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Communications &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Bertrand Meyer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/venezuela-ai-citizen-disaster-response/">AI powers citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Rest Of World &#8212; 15 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Daniella Fern&#225;ndez, Andrea Paola Hern&#225;ndez</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/china-just-dropped-another-bomb-on-americas-frontier-ai-companies-2000786670">China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America&#8217;s Frontier AI Companies</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 16 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-can-predict-how-youll-respond-to-a-survey-but-thats-not-the-same-as-understanding-you-287069">AI can predict how you&#8217;ll respond to a survey. But that&#8217;s not the same as understanding you</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 9 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Steve Bickley</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/">Landmark German ruling declares Google&#8217;s AI Overviews are Google&#8217;s own words and makes it liable for false answers</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Decoder &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Matthias Bastian</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-parrot">Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on &#8220;Stochastic Parrots&#8221;: Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 30 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Gwendolyn Rak</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135643/10-ai-artificial-intelligence-trends-technologies-research-2026/">10 things that matter in AI right now</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://blog.stackademic.com/open-source-llms-in-2026-the-free-ai-models-everyone-will-be-using-while-youre-still-overpaying-29cdfe3bff63">Open-Source LLMs in 2026: The Free AI Models Everyone Will Be Using While You&#8217;re Still Overpaying</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Medium &#8212; 6 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Anurag Goel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetometers-hidonix-astranav-gps-alternative">Standalone Magnetometry Is the New GPS: Companies are turning the tiny compasses in phones into full navigation alternatives</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 2 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Lucas Laursen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html">Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Arjun Kharpal</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/world-cup-technology-from-ref-cams-to-ai-analysts-cutting-edge-research-is-changing-the-game-285399">World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting&#8209;edge research is changing the game</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 22 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Thomas Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA">How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?</a></strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 25 Jun 2026 &#8212; by David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/13/anthropic-disable-advanced-ai-models-us-government-order">Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o">Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Harry Sekulichand, Shiona McCallum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/">The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in TechChurch &#8212; 15 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Connie Loizos</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science">How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o">Version of AI tool &#8216;too powerful for public&#8217; released to public</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Kali Hays</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/un-report-warns-ai-could-soon-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-and-more-water-than-we-need-to-drink-284442">UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world&#8217;s electricity and more water than we need to drink</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 4 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Amanda Turnbull-McRae</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-hgv">Inside the Software Making Electric Heavy Trucks Practical</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 27 May 2026 &#8212; by Benjamin Skuse</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 101, 1-8-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-101-1-8-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-101-1-8-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:07:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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But we&#8217;ve been here before.</a></strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/27/1140836/openai-hugging-face-attack-precedent/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 27 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Will Douglas Heaven</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device">A Hacker&#8217;s Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in PC Magazine &#8212; 6 July 2026 &#8212;  Michael Kan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-power-of-10-new-rules-for-the-digital-world/">The Power of 10: New Rules for the Digital World</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Communications &#8212; 24 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Sarah Spiekermann Hoff, Marc Langheinrich, Johannes Hoff, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/artificial-intelligence-for-software-engineering-from-probable-to-provable/">Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering: From Probable to Provable</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Communications &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Bertrand Meyer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/venezuela-ai-citizen-disaster-response/">AI powers citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Rest Of World &#8212; 15 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Daniella Fern&#225;ndez, Andrea Paola Hern&#225;ndez</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/china-just-dropped-another-bomb-on-americas-frontier-ai-companies-2000786670">China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America&#8217;s Frontier AI Companies</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 16 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-can-predict-how-youll-respond-to-a-survey-but-thats-not-the-same-as-understanding-you-287069">AI can predict how you&#8217;ll respond to a survey. 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21 Apr 2026 &#8212; Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://blog.stackademic.com/open-source-llms-in-2026-the-free-ai-models-everyone-will-be-using-while-youre-still-overpaying-29cdfe3bff63">Open-Source LLMs in 2026: The Free AI Models Everyone Will Be Using While You&#8217;re Still Overpaying</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Medium &#8212; 6 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Anurag Goel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetometers-hidonix-astranav-gps-alternative">Standalone Magnetometry Is the New GPS: Companies are turning the tiny compasses in phones into full navigation alternatives</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 2 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Lucas Laursen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html">Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 2 Jul 2026 &#8212; by Arjun Kharpal</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/world-cup-technology-from-ref-cams-to-ai-analysts-cutting-edge-research-is-changing-the-game-285399">World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting&#8209;edge research is changing the game</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 22 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Thomas Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA">How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?</a></strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 25 Jun 2026 &#8212; by David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/13/anthropic-disable-advanced-ai-models-us-government-order">Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o">Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Harry Sekulichand, Shiona McCallum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/">The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in TechChurch &#8212; 15 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Connie Loizos</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science">How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o">Version of AI tool &#8216;too powerful for public&#8217; released to public</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Kali Hays</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/un-report-warns-ai-could-soon-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-and-more-water-than-we-need-to-drink-284442">UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world&#8217;s electricity and more water than we need to drink</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 4 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Amanda Turnbull-McRae</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-hgv">Inside the Software Making Electric Heavy Trucks Practical</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 27 May 2026 &#8212; by Benjamin Skuse</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. 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9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. 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Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan 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by Arjun Kharpal</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/world-cup-technology-from-ref-cams-to-ai-analysts-cutting-edge-research-is-changing-the-game-285399">World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting&#8209;edge research is changing the game</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 22 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Thomas Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA">How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?</a></strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/sovereignty/how-should-european-scientists-respond-us-ai-kill-switch?vgo_ee=8Mp7znJsT2oLQS7%2F%2FmI9CLHa5%2BBYpOda8y4xqLNuVE5pEg%3D%3D%3A%2Bqra5qXzrVkZgKe6SAE4XXUMhxQpRlEA"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 25 Jun 2026 &#8212; by David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/13/anthropic-disable-advanced-ai-models-us-government-order">Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Guardian &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Reuters</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o">Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 13 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Harry Sekulichand, Shiona McCallum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-ai-layoff-wave-is-becoming-a-powder-keg/">The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in TechChurch &#8212; 15 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Connie Loizos</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science">How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg701v1dp6o">Version of AI tool &#8216;too powerful for public&#8217; released to public</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in BBC &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Kali Hays</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/un-report-warns-ai-could-soon-use-3-of-worlds-electricity-and-more-water-than-we-need-to-drink-284442">UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world&#8217;s electricity and more water than we need to drink</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 4 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Amanda Turnbull-McRae</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-hgv">Inside the Software Making Electric Heavy Trucks Practical</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 27 May 2026 &#8212; by Benjamin Skuse</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://gizmodo.com/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Gizmodo &#8212; 9 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Ece Yildirim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat">Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks</a></strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat"> </a></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 98, 11-7-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and 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Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 97, 4-7-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and 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Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill 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Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 95, 20-6-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and 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Spectrum &#8212; 11 Jun 2026 &#8212; by Andrew Cavalier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill 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fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 94, 13-6-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and 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href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 2 Jun2026 &#8212; by Shannon Bond, Deepa Shivaram</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 93, 6-6-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and 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Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/connected-vehicle-risks">Server Failures Turn Safe Cars Into Costly Dead Weight Cybersecurity incident leaves hundreds of U.S. drivers stranded</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Willie D. Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/">America&#8217;s coming war over AI regulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 23 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/">Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package</a></strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/"> </a></p><p><em>Published in Ars Technica &#8212; 26 May 2026 &#8212; by Dan Goodin</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/">Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest&#8212;and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Fortune &#8212; 28 May 2026 &#8212; by Jake Angelo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2026/05/11503360/2gdlev9mBig?source=cedge0519&amp;vgo_ee=aByPHhVj1Bq8fBFrGvKQVfZiy6xYmzZ%2FxY2eQgJeG5TSCg%3D%3D:o4SrIdV9YjLHtCoD8wAJhSU9J2u94x0f">The Price of Intelligence: Can AI Afford to Be Sustainable?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; May 2026 &#8212; by Antonio Mastropaolo</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark">Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 22 Sept 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/wildly-irresponsible-dots-use-of-ai-to-draft-safety-rules-sparks-concerns/">&#8220;Wildly irresponsible&#8221;: DOT&#8217;s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Ashley Belanger</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786613&amp;r=qn">Minimalist Design for Space Camera Flight Software</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers">AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can&#8217;t Replace Junior Devs</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in FinalRoundAI &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Kaustubh Saini, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 21 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault, Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/ai/ai-making-your-papers-harder-read">AI is making your papers harder to read</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 20 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130011/embryo-scoring-genetic-testing-2026-breakthrough-technology/">Embryo scoring</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Julia Blackarchive</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/issue/january-2026/">Grand Opening of the ACM Digital Library</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications ACM &#8212; 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But not everyone is convinced</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Edd Gent</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129181/ai-might-not-be-coming-for-lawyers-jobs-anytime-soon/">AI might not be coming for lawyers&#8217; jobs anytime soon</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 91, 23-5-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-91-23-5-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-91-23-5-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 05:01:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928342/openai-daybreak-security-ai">OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Verge &#8212; 12 May 2026 &#8212; by Stevie Bonifield</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1">AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 8 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker-group-use-ai-mass-exploitation-event.html">Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for &#8216;mass exploitation event&#8217;</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNBC &#8212; 11 May 2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark">Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 22 Sept 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/wildly-irresponsible-dots-use-of-ai-to-draft-safety-rules-sparks-concerns/">&#8220;Wildly irresponsible&#8221;: DOT&#8217;s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Ashley Belanger</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786613&amp;r=qn">Minimalist Design for Space Camera Flight Software</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers">AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can&#8217;t Replace Junior Devs</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in FinalRoundAI &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Kaustubh Saini, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 21 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault, Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/ai/ai-making-your-papers-harder-read">AI is making your papers harder to read</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 20 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130011/embryo-scoring-genetic-testing-2026-breakthrough-technology/">Embryo scoring</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Julia Blackarchive</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/issue/january-2026/">Grand Opening of the ACM Digital Library</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications ACM &#8212; 18 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Yannis Ioannidis</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse &#8212; Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality-20260107/">Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 7 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Staff Writer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts/">AI&#8217;s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan&#8217;s coastal villages</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Rest of World &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Hsiuwen Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-robotics-stories-2025">The Top 6 Robotics Stories of 2025: Humanoids are hard, the end of iRobot, and robots for cows</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 24 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/wildfire-drones">Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires: X Prize teams vie to douse disasters in the making</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 24 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Robb Mandelbaum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10938681/25n2yWIBtYI">Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by David E. Dunning</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/ex/2025/06/11278239/2cjD6UrrC6s">Architectural Concepts for Integrating Fundamental Drives and Emotions Into Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Teddy Ferdinan, Wiktoria Mieleszczenko-Kowszewicz, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2025/12/11285923/2ckeWambfHi">AI&#8217;s Appetite for Energy: How Data Centers Are Affecting the Environment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Nina DeFranco Tommarello</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20251216/">The Year in Computer Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 16 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michael Moyer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ais-errors-may-be-impossible-to-eliminate-what-that-means-for-its-use-in-health-care-251036">AI&#8217;s errors may be impossible to eliminate &#8211; what that means for its use in health care</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 11 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Carlos Gershenson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.seanews.co.uk/technology/digital-twins-transforming-maritime-operational-efficiency-brenda-robinson">Digital Twins Transforming Maritime Operational Efficiency: Brenda Robinson</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in SeaNews &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Nandika Chand</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/trends/hallucinations-in-ai-models">Hallucinations in AI Models: What They Mean for Software Quality and Trust</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE CompSoc &#8212; 19 Aug 2025 &#8212; by Gopinath Kathiresan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1128352/rise-of-ai-coding-developers-2026/">AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Edd Gent</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129181/ai-might-not-be-coming-for-lawyers-jobs-anytime-soon/">AI might not be coming for lawyers&#8217; jobs anytime soon</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 90, 16-5-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-90-16-5-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-90-16-5-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 05:01:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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2026 &#8212; by Samantha Subin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-anthropics-mythos-means-for-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 28 April 2026 &#8212; by Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html">Mythos and Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 17 April 2026 &#8212; by David Lie</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-physics-models-design-engineering">AI Models Trained on Physics Are Changing Engineering Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 9 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Dina Genkina</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a 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Jones</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing-trains-railways">Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe Distributed acoustic sensing uses existing fiber to measure unexpected vibrations</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Michelle Hampson</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>++++</p><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">What Anthropic&#8217;s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 23 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier, Barath Raghavan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-in-the-emergency-department-promising-powerful-but-still-unproven-282029">AI in the emergency department: promising, powerful but still unproven</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 7 May 2026 &#8212; by Ewen Harrison</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/google-employees-letter-pentagon-ai-classified-042726">600 Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block classified Pentagon AI deals</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Colleen Cabili</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/">Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404 Media &#8212; 27 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/">AI&#8217;s energy obsession just got a reality check</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 28 Jan 2025 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tech/chinas-ai-deepseek-v4-intl-hnk">China&#8217;s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in CNN &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by John Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://qz.com/ai-productivity-wages-gap-workers-compensation-042026">AI is making workers more productive. Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. 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16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark">Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 22 Sept 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/wildly-irresponsible-dots-use-of-ai-to-draft-safety-rules-sparks-concerns/">&#8220;Wildly irresponsible&#8221;: DOT&#8217;s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Ashley Belanger</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786613&amp;r=qn">Minimalist Design for Space Camera Flight Software</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers">AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can&#8217;t Replace Junior Devs</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in FinalRoundAI &#8212; 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17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Kaustubh Saini, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 21 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault, Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/ai/ai-making-your-papers-harder-read">AI is making your papers harder to read</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 20 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130011/embryo-scoring-genetic-testing-2026-breakthrough-technology/">Embryo scoring</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Julia Blackarchive</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/issue/january-2026/">Grand Opening of the ACM Digital Library</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications ACM &#8212; 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8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark">Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 22 Sept 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/wildly-irresponsible-dots-use-of-ai-to-draft-safety-rules-sparks-concerns/">&#8220;Wildly irresponsible&#8221;: DOT&#8217;s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Ashley Belanger</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786613&amp;r=qn">Minimalist Design for Space Camera Flight Software</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers">AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can&#8217;t Replace Junior Devs</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in FinalRoundAI &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Kaustubh Saini, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 21 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault, Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/ai/ai-making-your-papers-harder-read">AI is making your papers harder to read</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 20 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130011/embryo-scoring-genetic-testing-2026-breakthrough-technology/">Embryo scoring</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Julia Blackarchive</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/issue/january-2026/">Grand Opening of the ACM Digital Library</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications ACM &#8212; 18 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Yannis Ioannidis</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse &#8212; Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality-20260107/">Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 7 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Staff Writer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts/">AI&#8217;s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan&#8217;s coastal villages</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Rest of World &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Hsiuwen Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-robotics-stories-2025">The Top 6 Robotics Stories of 2025: Humanoids are hard, the end of iRobot, and robots for cows</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 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Their paychecks aren&#8217;t keeping up</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quartz &#8212; 21 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Quartz Staff</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01278-1">No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 20 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Jenna Ahart</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03246-7">How AI agents will change research: a scientist&#8217;s guide</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature &#8212; 3 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Elizabeth Gibney</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01212-0">AI economics for the common good</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 17 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Francesco Fuso Nerini</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01239-3">From embodied intelligence to physical AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Nature Machine Intelligence &#8212; 24 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Editorial</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/claude-mythos-and-project-glasswing-why-an-ai-superhacker-has-the-tech-world-on-alert-280374">Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Stan Karanasios, Saeed Akhlaghpour</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/openai-microsoft-anthropic-amazon">OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Nathan Bomey</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/">Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 14 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/">The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 13 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Konstantin Kakaes</em> </p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/">Why having &#8220;humans in the loop&#8221; in an AI war is an illusion</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 16 Apr 2026 &#8212; by Uri Maoz</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/node/60577/preview/a7UYLT6uoAJ-oFNgmZ6QunTYhra7QWIYIX3HhMMVqsk">Horizon Europe applications are skyrocketing. Is AI to blame?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 11 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;, David Matthews</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse: Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121460/meet-the-early-adopter-judges-using-ai/">Meet the early-adopter judges using AI: As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 11 Aug 2026 &#8212; by James O&#8217;Donnell</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ProPublica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jesse Coburn</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery">AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery: New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 19 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Elie Dolgin</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786611&amp;r=qn">Data Analysis: Why Is It So Complicated?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/perseverance-rover-nasa-anthropic-ai-2675264402">NASA Let AI Drive the Perseverance Rover</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Evan Gough</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth">Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Axios &#8212; 16 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Dave Lawler, Maria Curi, Mike Allen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/">What&#8217;s next for Chinese open-source AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Caiwei Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban">OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in NPR &#8212; 28 Feb 2026 &#8212; by  Shannon Bond, Geoff Brumfiel</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare">Speeding Up the &#8220;Kill Chain&#8221;: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Democracy Now &#8212; 18 Mar 2026 &#8212; by Democracy Now</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-triage-challenge-robots">Teams of Robots Compete to Save Lives on the Battlefield: The DARPA Triage Challenge will crown an overall winner in 2026</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 31 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-silicon-empires-nick-srnicek/">How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Wired &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nick Srnicek</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/deny-deny-admit-uk-police-used-copilot-ai-hallucination-when-banning-football-fans/">Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI &#8220;hallucination&#8221; when banning football fans</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 14 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Nate Anderson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-humans-making-the-relationship-work.html">AI &amp; Humans: Making the Relationship Work</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Schneier on Security &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Bruce Schneier</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/can-we-use-bees-as-a-model-of-intelligent-alien-life-to-develop-interstellar-communication-271524">Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/agi-benchmark">Will We Know Artificial General Intelligence When We See It?</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 22 Sept 2025 &#8212; by Matthew Hutson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/wildly-irresponsible-dots-use-of-ai-to-draft-safety-rules-sparks-concerns/">&#8220;Wildly irresponsible&#8221;: DOT&#8217;s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ArsTechnica &#8212; 26 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Ashley Belanger</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3786613&amp;r=qn">Minimalist Design for Space Camera Flight Software</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in ACM Queue &#8212; 13 Feb 2026 &#8212; by Alice Jackson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers">AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can&#8217;t Replace Junior Devs</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in FinalRoundAI &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Kaustubh Saini, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/">Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in 404Media &#8212; 21 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Matthew Gault, Matthew Gault</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-funding/ai/ai-making-your-papers-harder-read">AI is making your papers harder to read</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Science|Business &#8212; 20 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Goda Naujokaityt&#279;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130011/embryo-scoring-genetic-testing-2026-breakthrough-technology/">Embryo scoring</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Julia Blackarchive</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/issue/january-2026/">Grand Opening of the ACM Digital Library</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Communications ACM &#8212; 18 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Yannis Ioannidis</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades">AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse &#8212; Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 8 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Jamie Twiss</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality-20260107/">Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 7 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Staff Writer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts/">AI&#8217;s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan&#8217;s coastal villages</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Rest of World &#8212; 12 Jan 2026 &#8212; by Hsiuwen Liu</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-robotics-stories-2025">The Top 6 Robotics Stories of 2025: Humanoids are hard, the end of iRobot, and robots for cows</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 24 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Evan Ackerman</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/wildfire-drones">Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires: X Prize teams vie to douse disasters in the making</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 24 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Robb Mandelbaum</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/04/10938681/25n2yWIBtYI">Autocoding at Work: COBOL and the Specification of the American Office</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by David E. Dunning</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/ex/2025/06/11278239/2cjD6UrrC6s">Architectural Concepts for Integrating Fundamental Drives and Emotions Into Artificial Intelligence</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Teddy Ferdinan, Wiktoria Mieleszczenko-Kowszewicz, et.al.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2025/12/11285923/2ckeWambfHi">AI&#8217;s Appetite for Energy: How Data Centers Are Affecting the Environment</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Computer &#8212; 23 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Nina DeFranco Tommarello</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-computer-science-20251216/">The Year in Computer Science</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in Quanta Magazine &#8212; 16 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michael Moyer</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://theconversation.com/ais-errors-may-be-impossible-to-eliminate-what-that-means-for-its-use-in-health-care-251036">AI&#8217;s errors may be impossible to eliminate &#8211; what that means for its use in health care</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in The Conversation &#8212; 11 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Carlos Gershenson</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.seanews.co.uk/technology/digital-twins-transforming-maritime-operational-efficiency-brenda-robinson">Digital Twins Transforming Maritime Operational Efficiency: Brenda Robinson</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in SeaNews &#8212; 17 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Nandika Chand</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/trends/hallucinations-in-ai-models">Hallucinations in AI Models: What They Mean for Software Quality and Trust</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE CompSoc &#8212; 19 Aug 2025 &#8212; by Gopinath Kathiresan</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1128352/rise-of-ai-coding-developers-2026/">AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Edd Gent</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129181/ai-might-not-be-coming-for-lawyers-jobs-anytime-soon/">AI might not be coming for lawyers&#8217; jobs anytime soon</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in MIT Technology Review &#8212; 15 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michelle Kim</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-bandage-ai-electrical-stimulation">Smart Bandage Uses Electricity and Drugs to Heal Wounds</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 13 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Diya Dwarakanath</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/genai-morphdiff-drug-discovery">Teaching AI to Predict What Cells Will Look Like Before Running Any Experiments</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 15 Oct 2025 &#8212; by Alexandru Voica</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-models-locally">Your Laptop Isn&#8217;t Ready for LLMs. That&#8217;s About to Change</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in IEEE Spectrum &#8212; 17 Nov 2025 &#8212; by Matthew S. Smith</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-just-dropped-two-insanely-powerful-ai-models-that-rival-gpt-5-and?mc_cid=2dcac1da6a">DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they&#8217;re totally free</a></strong></p><p><em>Published in VentureBeat &#8212; 1 Dec 2025 &#8212; by Michael Nu&#241;ez</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/amazons-new-ai-can-code-for-days-without-human-help-what-does-that-mean-for?mc_cid=9f251d1b9d">Amazon&#8217;s new AI can code for days without human help. 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Chen</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[STEM News | Issue 85, 11-4-2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.]]></description><link>https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-85-11-4-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://methodd.substack.com/p/stem-news-issue-85-11-4-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harris Georgiou (MSc,PhD)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:03:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k_rd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb05b6043-497a-4b61-80ef-a8e5b2a94819_1152x640.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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