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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable (futurism.com)

2026-06-30 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: anthropic, ai safety, chad jones

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The Company Trying to Bring Back the Mammoth Just Teamed Up With the US Government (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-25 | get Mammoth DNA Preservation Kit → | tags: mammoth, biotech startup, us fish & wildlife

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Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’ (wired.com)

2026-06-25 | by Emily Mullin | get BioVault Endangered Species Kit → | tags: colossal biosciences, us fish and wildlife service, endangered species act

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Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-21 | get Egg Incubation Kit → | tags: colossal biosciences, artificial egg, de-extinction

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Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg. (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-20 | get Egg Incubator Kit → | tags: colossal, artificial eggshell, avian species

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Colossal Bioscience’s Multidisciplinary Science Approach Makes Major Breakthrough: Artificial Avian Eggs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | by Logan Simmons | get Smart Egg Incubator → | tags: colossal bioscience, artificial avian eggs, de-extinction

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‘De-Extinction’ Start-up Just Hatched Baby Chicks From a 3D-Printed Artificial Egg (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-19 | get 3D-Printed Egg Kit → | tags: colossal biosciences, de-extinction, 3d-printed egg

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The imperfect legacy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-01 | by Qi | tags: custodian-7, law, nature futures

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‘De-extinction’ Startup Wants to Revive Antelope Killed Off by South African Colonists (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-30 | get De-Extinction Science Kit → | tags: colossal biosciences, de-extinction, bluebuck

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Is this ‘de-extinction’ project actually onto something? (theverge.com)

2026-04-30 | by Tom Hawking | get De-Extinction Science Kit → | tags: colossal, de-extinction, bluebuck