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The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception
via MIT Technology Review [4] — 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. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life…
Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The…
The Download: soccer’s data renaissance and China’s big nuclear plans
via MIT Technology Review [4] — 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. Inside soccer’s data renaissance Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a…
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
via MIT Technology Review [10] — Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of millions of different AI agents interacting with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of…
Inside soccer’s data renaissance
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send the ball all the way down the pitch and right out of bounds on the opponent’s end. Casual fans might scratch their heads. Where’s the logic in…
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
via The Verge AI [3] — Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of…
OpenAI files for IPO, following Anthropic
via The Verge AI [4] — OpenAI on Monday checked off a preliminary step in the IPO race that it and rival Anthropic have been competing in for the better part of a year: The company announced it has confidentially submitted a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange…
Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job
via The Verge AI [4] — Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode. We covered…
Built to benefit everyone: our plan
via OpenAI Blog [6] — A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.
The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers
via MIT Technology Review [4] — 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. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza…
How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too…
Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
via The Verge AI [3] — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of…
Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI
via MIT Technology Review [4] — The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with…
Advancing youth safety and opportunity through global leadership
via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety through a dedicated AI Safety Institute
Our views on AI policy and political advocacy
via OpenAI Blog [5] — Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.
Anthropic has officially filed to go public
via The Verge AI [4] — After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for…
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
via OpenAI Blog [5] — OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move…
OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework
via OpenAI Blog [7] — Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.
AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him
via The Verge AI [4] — By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying…
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
via The Verge AI [6] — On Monday, Pope Leo XIV unveiled an encyclical letter addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warned that the "use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that…
Live Doom Meter
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The Doom Meter is a composite score derived from prediction markets and feed sentiment, updated daily.
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Prediction Markets
Weighted average of Manifold Markets questions on AI catastrophe, AGI timelines, expert surveys, and key figures. Direct doom indicators weighted higher than indirect capability markers.
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Feed Sentiment
Percentage of recent headlines containing high-alarm keywords (existential risk, catastrophe, extinction). Higher alarm density = higher score.
This is not a scientific estimate of existential risk. It is an opinionated, transparent signal — a vibes-based thermometer for AI doom discourse.
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