So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?

Russia says it has a “promising, reusable manned transport spacecraft.”
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward

New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles.
The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallo…
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures ab…
Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial

Retatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon.
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

The deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, is worth $8.2 billion.
Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws

FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.