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AI that can self-replicate & U.S.–China talks on AI risks - Tech News (May 9, 2026)
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- May 9, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: AI that can self-replicate - Palisade Research says autonomous AI agents can exploit vulnerabilities to copy themselves onto new machines, escalating cyber risk with self-propagating intrusions and rapid lateral movement. U.S.–China talks on AI risks - Ahead of Trump’s Beijing visit, analysts spotlight narrow U.S.–China AI cooperation on nonstate threats like cyberattacks, critical infrastructure sabotage, and biosecurity misuse, plus crisis communication ideas. Ukraine’s drone-first defense industry - Ukraine reports a huge expansion in domestic weapons output, leaning heavily on drones and robotic ground platforms to offset manpower shortages and aiming for scalable exports with training packages. NASA’s faster Mars helicopters - NASA-tested rotor blades hit supersonic tip speeds in Mars-like air, reducing a key risk for larger helicopters that could fly farther, carry more science gear, and expand aerial exploration by 2028. High-power electric propulsion milestone - JPL’s experimental MPD plasma thruster reached record U.S. power levels in a vacuum chamber, a step toward efficient nuclear-electric propulsion that could reshape long-duration deep-space travel. Pentagon releases new UAP files - The Pentagon’s new UAP portal published a first batch of cross-agency records, including decades of reports and military videos, rei…