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  • The new economics of enterprise AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 15:20 Oct 20, 2026
    Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…
  • AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 12:00 Oct 20, 2026
    The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably…
  • A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Oct 20, 2026
    Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…
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  • Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:22 Oct 19, 2026
    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform automated tasks, like capturing the content of web pages, but rules…
  • “We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 17:45 Oct 19, 2026
    “I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautious (and not-so-cautious) celebration. Cammarata’s claim is…
  • AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:08 Oct 19, 2026
    What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…
  • Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:00 Oct 16, 2026
    Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch…
  • Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:00 Oct 13, 2026
    MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…
  • AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Oct 13, 2026
    When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…
  • We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Oct 09, 2026
    Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary.  But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
  • Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 00:08 Oct 09, 2026
    Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
  • AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Oct 08, 2026
    The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…
  • Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 08:17 Oct 08, 2026
    Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the digital world, industrial AI can interact directly with physical systems,…
  • Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 15:47 Oct 05, 2026
    For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about situations, make decisions, and ultimately…
  • Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era 
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 13:29 Oct 05, 2026
    In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…
  • People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 08:00 Oct 05, 2026
    Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
  • EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 04:00 Oct 05, 2026
    Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.  Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
  • Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 15:49 Oct 02, 2026
    Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year. For many enterprises, this investment has…
  • Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 08:00 Oct 02, 2026
    On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
  • “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:40 Sep 30, 2026
    Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…
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