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  • Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 11:29 Sep 18, 2026
    On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
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  • Building the materials foundation for AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 12:47 Sep 16, 2026
    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. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limits around performance, thermal management, electrical efficiency, and reliability, creating new demands for materials that can do…
  • Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 17:47 Sep 15, 2026
    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 scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so,…
  • What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:00 Sep 15, 2026
    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 technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…
  • The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 17:54 Sep 14, 2026
    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 a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…
  • AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 16:00 Sep 14, 2026
    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 experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…
  • Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 20:05 Sep 11, 2026
    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 Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins unpacking AI extinction…
  • Powering AI is an architecture problem
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 11:00 Sep 10, 2026
    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’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…
  • What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 03:10 Sep 09, 2026
    OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
  • This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 10:34 Sep 08, 2026
    Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…
  • Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:39 Sep 04, 2026
    The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
  • Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:25 Sep 04, 2026
    Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
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  • Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 14:00 Sep 02, 2026
    As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…
  • The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 18:00 Aug 31, 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. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…
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  • The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 19:00 Aug 26, 2026
    The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’…
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  • Raised on AI
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 26, 2026
    When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.  Fast-forward a couple…
  • AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 26, 2026
    Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…
  • Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 07:01 Aug 26, 2026
    It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
  • I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
    MIT Technology Review [ai] - 09:00 Aug 25, 2026
    Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies here are already world leaders in humanoids. Nearly 90% of the…
  • 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…

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