Author: Shane Glass

Meta smart glasses enabled covert recording at an Indian protest, sparking viral transphobic abuse. With Reliance Jio launching a $105 rival, risks are scaling fast.

MIT Technology Review’s AI Roundtable, a 2022 bioweapons demo, an OpenAI breach, and employee warnings about AI destroying the web all collided this week.

AI company leaders warn their own tools could enable bioweapons, as a 2022 experiment generated 40,000 chemical warfare candidates in under six hours.

A faith-based crypto collapse cost 500 investors $3M. Plus: solar geoengineering gets a roadmap, a chip recovers waste heat, and US battery supply chains strain.

AI inference is straining enterprise infrastructure at the memory and storage layer. Jim McGregor of Tirias Research explains why the bottleneck isn’t compute.

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

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

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

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

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