{"podcast":{"title":"The Automated Daily","slug":"the-automated-daily-6466996","podcast_index_feed_id":6466996,"rss_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com","image_url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/logo.jpg","author":"TrendTeller","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Powered by cutting-edge Generative AI technology, we bring you the most crucial headlines of the day, carefully selected and delivered directly to your ears.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T02:17:22.579510+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996"},"episode":{"title":"AI that can self-replicate & U.S.–China talks on AI risks - Tech News (May 9, 2026)","slug":"ai-that-can-self-replicate-u-s-china-talks-on-ai-risks-tech-news-may-9-2026","published_at":"2026-05-09T13:31:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996/ai-that-can-self-replicate-u-s-china-talks-on-ai-risks-tech-news-may-9-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996","url":"https://theautomateddaily.com/episodes/2026-05-09-ai-that-can-self-replicate-u-s-china-talks-on-ai-risks","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.theautomateddaily.com/audio/tech/2026-05-09/en/episode.mp3","summary":"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…","meta_description":"Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - Sur…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":516,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-automated-daily-6466996/episodes/ai-that-can-self-replicate-u-s-china-talks-on-ai-risks-tech-news-may-9-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-automated-daily-6466996/ai-that-can-self-replicate-u-s-china-talks-on-ai-risks-tech-news-may-9-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}