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The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-18 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai extinction risk, bioweapons, molecule generator

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The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-16 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai extinction risk, mit technology review roundtable, openai

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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-15 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: openai, anthropic, ai extinction

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Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-14 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: colossal biosciences, de-extinction, synthetic biology

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The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-14 | by Thomas Macaulay | get Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset → | tags: ai extinction, age-reversal tech, whitehead institute

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Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all? (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-11 | by Mit Technology Review | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: ai extinction, mit technology review, niall firth

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Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-11 | by Mit Technology Review | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: mit technology review, niall firth, will douglas heaven

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Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all? (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-11 | by Mit Technology Review | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: ai extinction risk, mit technology review, niall firth

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Altimeter's Gerstner blasts researchers voicing AI extinction warnings, questions 'political agenda' (cnbc.com)

2026-09-11 | by Cj Haddad | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: altimeter capital, brad gerstner, anthropic

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AI regulation calls grow in DC after researcher's extinction warning (cnbc.com)

2026-09-11 | by Ashley Capoot | get The Alignment Problem Brian Christian book → | tags: anthropic, openai, ai regulation

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Global Glacier Extinction Explorer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-11 | get The Ice at the End of the World Jon Gertner book → | tags: glacier extinction, randolph glacier inventory, oggm

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Trump Shrugs Off Warnings That AI Could Cause Human Extinction (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-11 | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: trump, china, human extinction

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AI regulation calls grow in D.C. after researcher's extinction warning (cnbc.com)

2026-09-11 | by Ashley Capoot | get If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies Yudkowsky book → | tags: ai regulation, anthropic, openai

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Trump dismisses AI extinction risks as more than a dozen OpenAI, Anthropic insiders call for a slowdown (cnbc.com)

2026-09-11 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies book → | tags: openai, anthropic, donald trump

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What an Ex-Anthropic Researcher’s Warning About Human Extinction Really Means (cnet.com)

2026-09-10 | by Omar Gallaga | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: anthropic, jacob coxon, openai

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Lawmakers reach for AI legislation after researchers warn of extinction (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-10 | get If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies Yudkowsky Soares → | tags: anthropic, bernie sanders, ai legislation

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'Extinction' warnings ramp up as more OpenAI, Anthropic researchers join calls for an AI slowdown (cnbc.com)

2026-09-10 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: anthropic, openai, ai safety

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Anthropic researcher resigns, warns the AI race could end in human extinction (techspot.com)

2026-09-09 | by Rob Thubron | get Superintelligence Nick Bostrom book → | tags: anthropic, openai, jacob coxon

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This Newly Discovered Demonic-Looking Flower Is Nightmare Fuel (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-02 | get pocket microscope portable field → | tags: thismia daemona, extinction, researchers

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This Newly Discovered Demonic-Looking Flower is Nightmare Fuel (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-02 | get Venus flytrap live plant → | tags: thismia daemona, extinction, researchers

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The budget Android phone is quietly on its way to extinction (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-27 | get Google Pixel 9a unlocked → | tags: android authority, idc, smartphone shipments

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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: saber-toothed cats, inbreeding, extinction

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Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Mike Cummings | tags: yale, claire bowern, roman empire

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Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years (slashdot.org)

2026-07-28 | tags: mass extinctions, mantle convection, galactic influences

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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-23 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: meta, instagram, david bowie

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Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kreier | tags: rosetta stone, egyptian hieroglyphs, language extinction

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Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-20 | by Marina Temkin | tags: colossal biosciences, dire wolf, de-extinction

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The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Not Have Done It Exactly How We Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: chicxulub, asteroid, dinosaurs

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Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid (futurism.com)

2026-07-19 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: microsoft, data center, extinction rebellion

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'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | by Tech Workers Coalition | tags: microsoft, hyperscale data centre, acid attack