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This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elo

Plus: Meta has become the latest firm to say its AI hacked another company.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Trump's AI protectionism has come for robotics -James O'Donnell Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe:

The FCC has banned foreign-made humanoids, making a fragile, nascent sector part of America's AI industrial policy.

Plus: Google briefly made it easy to fake satellite images

The misbehavior is called reward hacking. This is what you need to know.

Plus: Anthropic says its AI models hacked external organizations during testing.

Kris DeVault's toddler has a rare genetic disease. He's desperate to try an experimental drug, even though it has not been through clinical trials.