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  • How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 14:20 Aug 24, 2026
    This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
  • Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 24, 2026
    People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…
  • Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 15:42 Aug 20, 2026
    “Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…
  • Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:47 Aug 20, 2026
    Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple connections. The airline can consider potentially hundreds of variables to price each of these journeys: demand, season, time of day, current events, global markets, and competitor airline activity to name…
  • We still don’t know how people are really using AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:06 Aug 18, 2026
    AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.  “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…
  • AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 18, 2026
    The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. …
  • What Flock’s defenders are missing
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 19:16 Aug 17, 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. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, announced some changes to its platform last Thursday. The updates are meant to prevent…
  • What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 17, 2026
    When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each other,…
  • Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 13:41 Aug 13, 2026
    The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse. Several changes aim directly at a problem that has made recent headlines:…
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  • How kids feel about AI, in their own words
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 13, 2026
    When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they were…
  • Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 16:51 Aug 12, 2026
    Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…
  • AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 20:00 Aug 10, 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. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
  • AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 10, 2026
    Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century. With the explosive arrival of artificial intelligence, the…
  • These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 10, 2026
    MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they described a new…
  • Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:43 Aug 03, 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. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s a nascent industry, and such robots…
  • Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 08:30 Aug 03, 2026
    MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers…
  • A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:15 Jul 30, 2026
    It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which…
  • The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 08:42 Jul 29, 2026
    It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,…
  • Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix 
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:18 Jul 28, 2026
    Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips with his coworkers on…
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  • OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. 
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:00 Jul 27, 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. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…
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