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# The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

**[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers a range of tech stories: researchers argue LLMs have a fundamental, unfixable security flaw that allows attackers to bypass safety training; a geothermal plant in New Mexico was revived using advanced modeling and modern drilling; the US government banned Chinese robot vacuums and humanoids via FCC; Google DeepMind disbanded its AlphaFold team; and other stories on data centers, AI inequality, drone delivery, and quantum computing progress.

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