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AI agents explained: What they are, what they can do and why they matter
Large language model basics: Training, prompting, hallucinations, and how to test reliability
Passkeys and password managers: A practical guide to logging in safely in 2026
Deepfakes and synthetic media: How to spot them, verify claims, and protect yourself
Cryptocurrency custody 101: Exchanges vs self-custody, wallets, seed phrases and scam prevention
Stablecoins Explained: How they work, what can go wrong, and the questions to ask
DeFi for beginners: Yields, lending, staking and the real tisks
Quantum computing explained: what it is, what it is not and why cryptography is the real story
AI in business: A laybook for adoption that does not collapse under security, cost, or culture
RAG explained: Why the promise of more accurate AI still comes with sharp edges
AI copyright and licensing basics: what creators and publishers should know
AI privacy risks put users and small firms on notice
Prompt injection and AI security: how attackers trick chatbots, and how to defend systems
Two-factor authentication explained: what works, what does not, and how to set it up safely
How to verify breaking tech claims: a toolkit for hype-resistant news consumption
AI search and zero-click: what changes for publishers, and what still works
AI model evaluation: how benchmarks work, and why they often mislead
AI hardware explained: GPUs, specialised chips, and why supply matters
Data centre boom: power, cooling, and the hidden constraints behind the AI arms race
AI in education: tutors, cheating and what schools can realistically do
AI and jobs: what is changing, what is not, and how to future-proof skills
AI procurement: the questions to ask before signing a contract
Model collapse and synthetic data: what happens when the internet fills with generated content
Artificial intelligence in finance: fraud detection, credit and the risk of black-box decisions
AI and elections: influence operations, deepfakes, and resilience
Open-source AI: benefits, risks, and how to assess projects responsibly
AI and misinformation: how falsehoods spread, and what actually reduces harm
AI translation and speech tools: accuracy, bias, and when to trust them
The economics of AI: why inference costs matter more than flashy demos
Prediction markets: A virtual time machine. Here's News Defused's guide to trading the future and avoiding the traps
Surveillance advertising: Trackers, fingerprinting, and what users can do
AI and IP for businesses: Protecting your content and your brand
I model updates, why tools change overnight and how to manage version risk
Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results
Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory
Digital twins in medicine and engineering: How to tell a useful tool from an expensive mirage
Robot batteries explained: why they are not just smaller electric vehicle packs
CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells
Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale
New antibiotics explained: Phages, bacteriocins and AI, and why none is a silver bullet
Brain-computer interfaces today: Real communication breakthroughs, stubborn engineering limits, and the hype traps to...
Why robots hate doorknobs: The small piece of hardware that exposes everything robots still struggle with
Organoids on a chip: Miniature human tissues that are changing how drugs are tested
Living medicines, strange ethics: the rise of engineered microbes that treat disease from the inside
The cell’s postal service: How extracellular vesicles could become the next drug delivery revolution
CRISPR’s next act: Editors that rewrite single letters without cutting the DNA
Batteries, not brains: Bioelectricity and the new map of how bodies heal
The immune system’s new teachers: Personalised cancer vaccines and the logistics of made-to-order medicine
The end of antibiotics, again: phage therapy, bacteriocins, and precision antimicrobials
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OpenAI ends model access for SpaceX-owned Cursor
It will stop providing its AI models to Cursor, the coding tool now owned by SpaceX, citing concerns it cannot be confident the technology will be used inside its terms of service.