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It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist

The witch craze could not have traveled as far or lasted as long without the printing press. Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches), a 1486 screed by the German witch-hunter Heinrich Kramer,... Read more »

Exclusive eBook: The Math on AI’s Energy Footprint

In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s... Read more »

Exclusive eBook: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint.

In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s... Read more »

Building a high performance data and AI organization (2nd edition)

To determine the extent to which organizational data performance has improved as generative AI and other AI advances have taken hold, MIT Technology Review Insights surveyed 800 senior data and technology executives.... Read more »

The Download: Boosting AI’s memory, and data centers’ unhappy neighbors

1 Hurricane Melissa may be the Atlantic Ocean’s strongest on recordThere’s little doubt in scientists’ minds that human-caused climate change is to blame. (New Scientist $)+ While Jamaica is largely without power,... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: Data centers’ neighbors are pivoting to power blackouts

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.... Read more »

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand. However, these tokens quickly become expensive to... Read more »

Roundtables: Seeking Climate Solutions in Turbulent Times

Companies are pursuing climate solutions amid shifting U.S. politics and economic uncertainty. Drawing from MIT Technology Review’s 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, this session highlights the most promising technologies—from electric... Read more »

Finding return on AI investments across industries

Most enterprises would automatically prioritize confidentiality of their data and design business workflows to maintain trade secrets. From an economic value point of view, especially considering how costly every model API call... Read more »

The Download: Microsoft’s stance on erotic AI, and an AI hype mystery

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is taking AI in a dangerous direction by building chatbots... Read more »