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How much more can nuclear power plants give? · Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

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    How much more can nuclear power plants give?

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

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    Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform

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    Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis

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    McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

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    AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for October 15, 2026 — 22 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  2. Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt TechCrunch
  3. Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different TechCrunch
  4. Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam Ars Technica
  5. Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids The Verge
  6. The AI race is back on The Verge
  7. Now that Character.AI is going bankrupt, what happens to all of its users’ data? The Verge
  8. Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins Ars Technica
  9. Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room Ars Technica
  10. HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost Hugging Face
  11. Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices Ars Technica
  12. The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. My Friend Has No Soul Wired
  14. Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI Wired
  15. AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity Wired
  16. Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B Hugging Face
  17. Google DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  20. Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself Hugging Face
  22. Introducing Falcon ASR Hugging Face
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