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An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it

Nowatzki, who is 46 and lives in Minnesota, dedicated four episodes to his meet-cute and dates with “Erin,” his first AI girlfriend—created, he adds, with the knowledge and consent of his human... Read more »

Humanlike “teeth” have been grown in mini pigs

A healthy tooth has dental pulp at its core. That pulp, which contains nerves and blood vessels, is surrounded by layers of hard tissues called dentin, cementum, and enamel. These layers are... Read more »

Muschenetz poetry citations

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 »

Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.

Boom plans to start commercial operation with a scaled-up version of the XB-1, a 65-passenger jet called Overture, before the end of the decade, and it has already sold dozens of planes... Read more »

The Download: smart glasses in 2025, and China’s AI scene

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process.” —AI company Anthropic... Read more »

What’s next for smart glasses

He has reason to be optimistic, though: Meta is currently ahead of its competition thanks to the success of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses—the company sold more than 1 million units last... Read more »

The Download: understanding dark matter, and AI jailbreak protection

We can put a good figure on how much we know about the universe: 5%. That’s how much of what’s floating about in the cosmos is ordinary matter—planets and stars and galaxies... Read more »

Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek

Honorable mentions Baichuan While many of its competitors chase scale and expansive application ranges, Baichuan AI, founded by industry veteran Wang Xiaochuan (the founder of Sogou) in April 2023, is focused on... Read more »

The Download: understanding deep matter, and AI jailbreak protection

We can put a good figure on how much we know about the universe: 5%. That’s how much of what’s floating about in the cosmos is ordinary matter—planets and stars and galaxies... Read more »

How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy

Other observatories, like the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, have already begun stitching together this map from their images of galaxies. But Rubin plans to do so with... Read more »