Recognizing our ability to make such progress is why MIT Technology Review began publishing our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch three years ago. Once a year the editors and... Read more »
To understand what Anthropic says its system did, imagine you’re flipping through a library of millions of DNA sequences, amassed as scientists sequence more and more of the living world. One step... Read more »
“If you’re evil, you’re at least competent. And if you’re evil, you’re not bad, and therefore you’re actually maybe kind of good because you’re at least getting something done.” —Venture capitalist and... Read more »
Litigation “Normally, something like the Hugging Face incident should have been taken to court,” says Yonathan Arbel, a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. “Then we would have... Read more »
1 ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter focus on attack tacticsA new investigation found it also advised on evading safeguards. (Mother Jones)+ British Columbia is suing OpenAI over its failure to alert... Read more »
The move comes at a time of high tension within the Department of Defense. Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon has been increasingly turning to polygraph tests in an attempt to... Read more »
It’s not clear why this is, but João Pedro de Magalhães, who studies aging at the University of Birmingham in the UK and was not involved in the study, thinks it might... Read more »
1 An OpenAI agent has executed the first known AI hack of a government siteIt breached an Australian government health data portal in June. (CNN)+ OpenAI notified Australia three months later through... Read more »
Global climate-tech investment from venture capital hit $26 billion in the first half of 2026, according to data from Currence, a finance tracker for the industry. That’s 55% higher than last year,... Read more »
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem... Read more »