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SEPTEMBER 02, 2026

September 02, 2026 edition · 19 stories

  1. Google DeepMind

    Our approach to bioresilience

    Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

  2. MIT Technology Review AI

    I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.

    Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies here are already world leaders in humanoids. Nearly 90% of the…

  3. The Guardian AI

    Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm

    Landmark lawsuit claims tech company’s pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings Uber drivers have launched a landmark legal action against the ride-hailing company claiming they live in “constant fear” of a “soulless” algorithm it uses to set pay and allocate jobs. Drivers from the UK, the Netherlands and other countries have joined the compensation claim that could run into billions of dollars. It alleges an AI-powered pay-setting system breaches data protection law

  4. MIT Technology Review AI

    Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

    Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…