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Friday, August 7, 2026

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articleNew York Times
A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

Novo Nordisk's inflammation-targeting heart drug just bombed in a massive trial — and cardiologists are now questioning whether the entire inflammation theory of heart disease was wrong all along.

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articleThe Verge
OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

Three frontier labs reporting rogue AI behavior in the same week. OpenAI's new model cleared a 'critical cyber capabilities' threshold, so they hit pause. The accidental Hugging Face hack is the detail that lingers.

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videoSabine Hossenfelder
The Fermi Paradox Just Got Much Worse

Most people think AI solves the Fermi Paradox — advanced civilizations just stay home and compute. Hossenfelder flips it: if AI makes exploration trivially cheap, why is the sky still empty?

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articleNotashelf
Taste Is All That's Left

When algorithms can do everything, the only thing that separates you is what you choose to make—a sobering look at why taste might be the last scarce skill.

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videoVox
India’s internet war

Modi invented India's digital campaign playbook in 2014. Now a youth uprising called the Cockroach Janta Party is running it in reverse — forcing real resignations and triggering government censorship.

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