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.
Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to make money or com...
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, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effi...
The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities.
In a National Security Presidential Memoran...
At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its goal is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that drives the expansion of...