FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"

The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest

Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat

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. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MI…
Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had…
Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test

“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive.”
The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech

In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progres…