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June 13, 2024 US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets
Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets.

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10 min
June 12, 2024 From the Archives: The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed
Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution.

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8 min
June 12, 2024 An AI Cartoon May Interview You For Your Next Job
As if trying to land a new gig isn't demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills.

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10 min
June 11, 2024 The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.

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12 min
June 10, 2024 The Case for MDMA's Approval Is Riddled With Problems
The FDA is considering approving MDMA alongside psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. But evidence of the drug’s effectiveness isn’t clear cut.

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13 min
June 09, 2024 From the Archives: Energy Drinks Are Out of Control
Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe?

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13 min
June 08, 2024 From the Archives: Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants
Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring.

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11 min
June 07, 2024 From the Archives: What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?
Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.

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11 min
June 07, 2024 Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid
Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.

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8 min
June 06, 2024 From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.

Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.

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14 min

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