🤖 AI & Machine Learning
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models
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Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed, leaving Pong-like traces on a monitor.  The reason to watch this rodent so careful...
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semicon...
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Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more...
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Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, sh...
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and...
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Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for...
Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade....
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent ...
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. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employee...
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Te...
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.
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Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology. Our 35 Innovators Under 35 are the ones to watch—people whos...
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
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On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn&#...
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineerin...
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help s...
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he wa...
The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of pr...
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.
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. What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about th...
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report. That’s enough to supply the daily ...
Plug a phone into a modern charger and the first 10 minutes are impressive. The next 20 are not. This is not a defect. It’s the connected device protecting itself. As temperature rises during charging...