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Publisher description: Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 11, 2026 | Thomas Macaulay
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Meet the rest of them here, or explore the full list across the AI, computing and robotics, biotechnology, and climate and energy categories. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Anthropic says it has blocked potential plots to build biological weaponsThe company identified five such cases. (NYT $)+ And six cases of using AI to build software for conventional weapons (BBC)+ Governments are also using Claude for surveillance. (Axios)+ While Russia-linked hackers used it to automate attacks on Ukraine. (Quartz)+ The threats were revealed in a new Anthropic report.
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