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China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself

It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week. It appears to rival the intelligence... Read more »

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

The models were even more likely to stereotype people by demographic group than the human participants in the original study. On the study’s segregation scale, where 2 means every group has been... Read more »

The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage

—Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. Kuglitsch, & Andrea Toreti The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 SpaceX is negotiating to sell the... Read more »

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap

Despite what some marketers will claim, there is no test for perimenopause. That doesn’t mean women should have to put up with symptoms, but treatment suggestions often lack scientific evidence. And not... Read more »

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

At the low end of the risk scale, an individual speculator manipulates a weather station for personal gain—that is the CDG Airport case. One step up: A group of traders could coordinate... Read more »

There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it.

Today, information about perimenopause is more prevalent and accessible than ever. If you’re a woman in your 40s and you’re not feeling 100%, chances are there’ll be someone online ready to tell... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk discreetly bought a $1 billion gas turbine firm to power GrokHe acquired fossil fuel company... Read more »

Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US

These stats are especially striking at this moment, because a key tax credit for heat pumps just ended with the close of 2025. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the... Read more »

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

As LLMs become more complex and get used in a wider variety of tasks—especially in the form of agents, which can interact with computer files, websites, and third-party code as well as... Read more »

The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated... Read more »