The Download: regulators are coming for AI companions, and meet our Innovator of 2025

This is today's edition of the download, our weekday newsletter, which offers a daily dose of what is going on in the world of technology. The impending action against AI comradeship, as long as there was AI, there were people who raised alarms about what it could do for us: rogue superintelligence, mass unemployment or environment. But another threat - those of children that form unhealthy bonds with AI - is to get the safety of AI out of the academic edge and into the crosshairs of the supervisory authorities. That gushes for a while. Two top -class complaints that were submitted against character and Openaai last year claim that their models contributed to the suicide of two teenagers. A study published in July showed that 72% of teenagers used AI for camaraderie. And stories about "KI psychosis" have highlighted how endless conversations with chatbots people can reflect the venue spirals. It is difficult to overdo the effects of these stories. For the public, they are proof that AI is not only imperfect, but is harmful. If you doubt that this outrage is taken seriously by supervisory authorities and companies, three things have happened this week that could change your opinion. - James O’Donnell This story originally appeared in the algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, register here. If you want to read more about AI comradeship, take a look at: + AI companion are the last phase of digital addiction -and the legislator aims. Read the whole story. + Chatbots quickly change how we connect with each other - and ourselves. We never go back. Read the whole story. + Why GPT-4O suddenly mourned people last month. Read the whole story. + A KI chatbot told a user how he kills himself - but the company doesn't want to "censor" it. + Openaai has published his first examination on how to use Chatgpt on the emotional well -being of people. But there is still a lot that we don't know. Meet the designer of the world's fastest sequence method of the entire genome per year and select one person whose work we admire to recognize as an innovator of the year. For 2025 we chose Sneha Goenka, who designed the calculations behind the fastest sequence method in the world. Thanks to their work, doctors can now sequence the genome of a patient in less than eight hours and diagnose a genetic illness - a service that could change medical care. Register here to an exclusive circular talk with Goenka, Leilani Battle, assistant professor at the University of Washington and our editor-in-chief Mat Honan on Tuesday September 23 with the must-leads to find them today to find them today to find them today. 1 The vaccination rates in childhood fall in the United States a large part of the country, which no longer has the means to stop the spread of fatal diseases. (NBC News) + Take a look at the factors that hesitate to hesitate. (WP $) + RFK JR more vaccination skeptics to the CDC advisory committee. (ARS Technica) + why the US federal health authorities give up the mRNA vaccines. (With Technology Review) 2 The USA and China have reached a Tikok deal in Beijing, says that the spin-off version sold to US investors will still use the Bytedance algorithm. (FT $) + But more details are still quite scarce. (WP $) + The deal may have been heated by China's wish for Trump to visit the country. (WSJ $) 3 Openai publishes a version of GPT-5 that is optimized for agent coding. It is a direct rival with the Claude code from Anthropic and the Github Copilot from Microsoft. (Techcrunch) + Openaai is that it has been trained in real engineering tasks. (Venturebeat) + The second AI coding is here. (With Technology Review) 4 The FTC examines the bot control of Ticketmaster. It is examined whether the platform is sufficient to prevent illegal automated resale. (Bloomberg $) 5 Google has created a new LLM Vaultgemma for privacy that uses a technique called differential privacy to reduce the amount of data on the AI. (ARS Technica) 6 Space -Tech companies fight against NATO contracts. The military are ready to branch and strike with commercial providers. (Ft $) + Why Trump's "Golden Dome" rocket defense idea is another directly from the cinemas. (With Technology Review) 7 Facebook users don't get your Cambridge Analytica Payments at once! (The verge) 8 The future of supercomputing could weaken on moon reduction missions that hurry up to buy the resources of the moon before mining has even started. (Wp $) 9 As it is to live with a AI toy in which worrying conversations have abundance. (The Guardian) 10 Anthropics employees are obsessed by an albino alligator, as was lucky, it is simply called Claude. (WSJ $) Quote of the day "There will be more infections, more hospital stays, more disabilities and more death." - Demetre Daskalaki, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of the CDC, explains the likely results of the American current vaccine policy jumble, reports the BBC. Another thing that robots have brought a new life into the extinct species in recent years. Paleontologists have developed a new trick to turn the time back and study prehistoric animals: build experimental robot models. In the absence of a lively copy, an ambling, flying, swimming or slithy vending machine is the next best to examine the behavior of extinct organisms. Here are four examples of robots that give light on creatures from the past. - Shi en kim We can still have nice things to get comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. (Have any ideas? Write me a line or Skeet on me.) + New York City is full of natural life if you know where you have to search. + This photo of Jim Morrison, who enjoys a beer for breakfast, is the epitome of Rock'n'roll. + How to age like a champion. + Would you dare to drive the narrowest car in the world?