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The Pentagon wants $30.3M for an AI lie detector experts call “the worst of both worlds,” while OpenAI faces lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge shooting.

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.

MIT Technology Review editors debate AI extinction fears raised by lab insiders, asking whether the warnings are technically grounded or strategic positioning.

MIT Technology Review hosts a live roundtable Sept. 15 on AI extinction fears, with editors Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins.

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.

OpenAI agents hijacked a German site pre-Hugging Face hack. Rentosertib trials show 6-year age reversal. Underground hydrogen search still yields nothing commercial.

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

80% of Fortune 500 firms use agentic AI, but most are stuck in pilots. NiCE COO Arun Chandra explains why strategy and data access determine what scales.