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  • 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…
  • 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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