Content from MIT Technology Review Insights This content was produced by Insights, the custom content arm of MIT Technology Review. It was not written by MIT Technology Review's editorial staff. Living digital twins are helping industrial plants run more like living systems, and setting the stage for industries that work in sync. Functionally, though, a plant or factory is more like a living thing: It has a pulse, even a metabolism. It goes through wear and tear as it ages, and signs of deteriorating health often show up as barely perceptible irregularities.

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK, AU or IE homepage at any time using this menu. Met Police did not launch child sex probe into Thomas Markle - as force hunts for'disturbing' 2018 letter Meghan revealed after it emerged her father faces abuse photos investigation Dead-eyed and exhausted, Prince Harry should just come out and admit it he must know it's all over: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Trump suggests Ilhan Omar must immediately resign for using a'fake name' as he informs Speaker Johnson she has'conceded her seat' JD Vance's confession aboard Air Force Two completely changed how I see this election. Even my Democrat sources are privately admitting they agree - there's been a monumental shift in the midterms: MARK HALPERIN Internet faces'vulnerability tsunami' knocking services offline as Anthropic security leader warns the crisis will'get a lot worse' Melania Trump brokers ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine to allow elderly to evacuate city of Oleshky on'brink of disaster' RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Trump is toast! Don't ask me, just listen to what the voters are saying in the local Cheers-style bars of the US JAN MOIR: Meghan, with her sprinkles and faux bonhomie, is hard enough to bear but this is why Prince Harry is far worse... no wonder William looks haunted How, after two kids and approaching 40, I'm stronger than ever: I've never been fat, but my stomach was squashy, I had zero muscle tone and a bum that was a deflated ghost of its former self Nashville whispers about Trisha Yearwood's dramatic transformation: Country singer credits'working hard' at the gym... but insiders reveal private pain that may be behind staggering weight loss Police handling of Kurt Cobain death evidence faces official investigation amid claim ex-chief admitted key details in case didn't add up The Bush family are determined to bring down Trump - even if it means turning Texas blue to achieve it: 'It's political civil war' 'There's a one in three chance AI will kill mankind in ten years', ex-Google DeepMind researcher warns Elon Musk leaves woke media elites shaking in their boots as he invests $1billion in CNN and Paramount's parent company Gunman'intent on causing as many casualties as possible' shoots five people in France, killing one, with girl, 12, hit eight times - as cops probe'racist motivation' Five Israelis are wounded by terrorists before IDF kill gunmen and thwart'major attack on civilians' - after it was revealed Hamas warned of a'second October 7' Insiders dare to say the unthinkable about Taylor Swift: Has the facade finally cracked? As friends reveal why she is'aggravated and at boiling point'... ex-Swifties pen essays on why they're no longer fans Internet faces'vulnerability tsunami' knocking services offline as Anthropic security leader warns the crisis will'get a lot worse' READ MORE: I'm a Christian leader who attended a secret meeting with Anthropic.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into a law new rules for robotaxis, including one that that's meant to address concerns that they could get in the way of emergency services. Newsom signed Senate Bill 1246, which will establish local penalties for robotaxi companies if their vehicles block first responders, such as ambulances and fire trucks, for more than 30 minutes in case of emergencies. Several events over the past year have heightened people's worries that driverless cars could hinder emergency services from responding in a timely manner. In December 2025, several Waymo vehicles got stuck in the middle of San Francisco roads after a power outage that took out the city's traffic lights. During this year's Fourth of July celebrations, Waymo vehicles also had to be towed away after they ran out of power and got stranded due to heavy San Francisco traffic. Outside of California, in Austin Texas, a Waymo car blocked an ambulance that was responding to a shooting.

MSPs asked to pause Scotland's AI data centre boom Scotland has a new boom industry, at least if planning applications are taken at face value. The term "hyperscale data centre", rarely heard a few years ago, is now dividing opinion across the country as a rush of applications are made to build them. A debate at Holyrood later, led by the Scottish Greens, will call for planning applications to be put on hold until promised new national guidelines are in force, with an emphasis on energy demand and the environment. Ahead of the debate, ministers announced that all new applications for AI data centres will have to undergo an environmental impact assessment. The growth of AI is happening at lightning pace, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of Scotland being at the forefront?

Anthropic AI claims to have thwarted multiple malicious operations using its Claude models, ranging from cyber-espionage and weapons design to mass surveillance campaigns. On the conventional weapons front, the company alleges in a new report that it intervened in northern Yemen, blocking an effort to deploy Claude for missile guidance software, including a guided rocket and a long-range ballistic missile. According to Anthropic's threat report, the operators used Claude "in place of human software engineers", reportedly assigning different instances of the model specific roles to write missile-guidance and flight-control software. While internal safeguards blocked many requests, Anthropic admitted several slipped through. The operators avoided detection by obscuring their ultimate goals and breaking tasks across separate sessions, so no single prompt gave away the operation.

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X has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform as part of its Safety team's investigation into suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." Specifically, their posts talked about how AI data centers can drive up the prices of household electricity and strain the grids of towns nearby. They also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators as unscrupulous businessmen raking in profits from the facilities while average families shoulder the bill.

The UK's energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country's AI ambitions hang in the balance. As data center developers compete for a cut of the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the artificial intelligence industry, the queue to join the UK's power grid has become jammed with projects that will likely never get built. The snarl is exacerbating already years-long wait times for viable projects, and it's messing with attempts to forecast energy demand and plan grid expansions. In July, the UK's energy regulator, Ofgem, laid out a proposal meant to force phantom data centers out of the swollen queue.

Agentic AI is no longer a research artifact. These systems are embedded in live infrastructure, clinical workflows, and legal processes: deleting databases, advising patients, and generating legal documents. Wrong outputs cannot simply be taken back. The central question has shifted from whether these systems are ready to make consequential decisions to who is accountable when they get those decisions wrong. The standard apparatus of fault-finding (identifying an actor, establishing a duty, connecting a breach to an injury) was built for a world in which agents are human, decisions are sequential, and causation is legible.