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Building agent-first governance and security

According to the Deloitte AI Institute 2026 State of AI report, nearly 74% of companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years. Yet only one in five (21%) reports having a... Read more »

The Download: turning down human noise, and LA’s stunning subway upgrade

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Apple’s Tim Cook is stepping down as CEOHardware chief John Ternus will take over from him in September.... Read more »

Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past

The ship’s crew and researchers recover the sediment corer, a 25-meter-long steel pipe that is driven into the seafloor using a top weight of more than three metric tons.TIM KALVELAGE Together, the... Read more »

The Download: murderous ‘mirror’ bacteria, and Chinese workers fighting AI doubles

These lab-created microbes would be organized like ordinary bacteria, but their proteins and sugars would be mirror images of those found in nature. Researchers believed they could reveal new insights into building... Read more »

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back

Internet users have found humor in the idea behind the tool, joking about automating their coworkers before themselves. However, Colleague Skill’s virality has sparked a lot of debate about workers’ dignity and... Read more »

Pie Day 2026

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 »

Pie day links

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 »

How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

That has changed. The machines are yet unbuilt, but the money is flowing: Companies and investors put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots in 2025 alone, four times what was invested in 2024. ... Read more »

The case for fixing everything

Brand is right, too, that maintainers haven’t gotten the laurels they deserve. Over the past few decades, scholars have shown that work from oiling tools to replacing worn parts to updating code... Read more »

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

At Ensemble, the strategy for addressing this challenge is knowledge distillation. The systematic conversion of expert judgment and operational decisions into machine-readable training signals. In health-care revenue cycle management, for example, systems... Read more »