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I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests yet

Most people I spoke to agreed that technology companies probably wouldn’t take any notice of this kind of protest. “I don’t think that the pressure on companies will ever work,” Maxime Fournes,... Read more »

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Pentagon wanted Anthropic to analyze bulk data collected from Americans It proved the sticking point in... Read more »

I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests ever

And yet despite that urgency, the atmosphere at the march was pleasant, even fun. There was no sense of anger and little sense that lives—let alone the survival of our species—was at... Read more »

MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting

AI is often described as a black box, but it’s not just its inner workings that are mysterious. Leading AI companies have kept figures on energy use closely guarded, making it hard... Read more »

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Anthropic has refused the Pentagon’s AI demands It’s holding firm on its stance: no mass surveillance of... Read more »

AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think

Ten years ago AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI program, stunned the world by defeating the South Korean Go player Lee Sedol. And in the years since, AI has upended the game. It’s overturned... Read more »

Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformation

“To realize the promise of Industry 5.0, companies must move beyond cost and efficiency to focus on growth, resilience, and human-centric outcomes,” says Sachin Lulla, EY Americas industrials and energy transformation leader.... Read more »

The Download: how America lost its lead in the hunt for alien life, and ambitious battery claims

In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these marks are almost always produced by microbial life. Sure, those specks... Read more »

This company claims a battery breakthrough. Now they need to prove it.

It sounded amazing—this sort of technology could transform the EV industry. But many quickly wondered if it was all too good to be true. Now, Donut Lab is releasing a series of... Read more »

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

Two messages were encoded on the 70-foot parachute used by the Perseverance rover as it descended toward Mars. This annotated image shows how NASA systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code... Read more »