When I was growing up, I always liked building things: Lego builds, Minecraft worlds, and then video games in Scratch. I’d make a little game, post it for other kids to play,... Read more »

The feat could change the way scientists think about reproduction, says Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamanashi, who co-led the work. The findings were published in a preprint... Read more »

As AI agents become embedded more widely in enterprise operations, the need to overcome the restrictions of legacy data systems grows more urgent. If Gartner’s prediction that AI agents will augment or... Read more »

1 China-linked hackers have hit Taiwan in an “unprecedented” AI attackThey used open-source agents to compromise government websites. (FT $)+ UK military drones were found sending a signal to China. (Cybernews)+ Taiwan’s... Read more »

The editors of MIT Technology Review published the first Innovators Under 35 list in 1999, and it’s become a beloved annual tradition alongside our lists of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, 10 Climate Tech... Read more »

And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office was called, was accused of serving as the State Department’s central hub in the so-called censorship-industrial complex—a sprawling constellation of government agencies, academics, civil society... Read more »

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Nvidia has secured $500 billion from Wall Street for AI infrastructureIt’s struck deals with BlackRock, Goldman... Read more »

It’s a weird time for university AI researchers, who make up most of the AI2050 group. In the past four years, AI research has reoriented around large language models, and its cutting... Read more »

In 2024, Google DeepMind scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a neural network, AlphaFold, which predicts the structures of proteins. It showed that AI could make groundbreaking scientific discoveries, but... Read more »