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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

One niche that Anthropic spends more time and money on than other AI companies is called mechanistic interpretability, which means looking inside the complex math of an AI model to learn why... Read more »

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secretsOpenAI purportedly stole IP to develop its own... Read more »

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

“I think we’re going to enable a larger-scale use and adoption of it that could be meaningful to agriculture,” he says, adding: “These will become basically soil production facilities.”  Concerns Determining how... Read more »

The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on OpenAI’s GPT 5.6The green light came after additional testing... Read more »

The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning

The idea is meant to address concerns that AI companies are benefiting from human-generated work without compensating creators, while also easing fears that AI will cause a collapse of the labor market... Read more »

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

Context engineering relies on a modernized, unified data foundation as well as retrieval and memory systems such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases. It also requires careful prioritization to determine... Read more »

EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

EmTech AI 2026: The Rise of the AI Platform

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US

But achieving criticality doesn’t mean a reactor is ready to provide electricity for the grid (or at all, for that matter). Let’s untangle what this program’s success could mean for nuclear power... Read more »

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

Anthropic also found that the J-space can sometimes give remarkable insights into an LLM’s decision-making. In one striking example, researchers testing Claude Opus 4.6 asked the model to find a bug in... Read more »