I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Garbled AI-generated text is taking over the web Particularly mistranslations of languages spoken in Africa and the Global South.... Read more »

Many of these so-called advanced technologies were invented and even demonstrated over 50 years ago, before the industry converged on the standard water-cooled plant designs. But now there’s renewed interest in getting... Read more »

Laurel: On that topic of workplace agility. In 2020, bp began a reorganization that consolidated its procurement departments into that single global procurement organization. What were the challenges that resulted from this... Read more »

“It would be anticipated that such a model would improve the current landscape,” he says. “But it really needs to be very early to make the biggest impact.” It’s possible that some... Read more »

Kairos is making progress on construction, too. The company received approval in December from the NRC to build Hermes-1, its first nuclear test reactor. Hermes-1 will produce about 35 megawatts of thermal... Read more »

To train AlphaGeometry’s language model, the researchers had to create their own training data to compensate for the scarcity of existing geometric data. They generated nearly half a billion random geometric diagrams... Read more »

For the better part of 17 years, the roiling, rolling, fractious, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, never-ever-ending global conversation had a central home: Twitter. If you wanted to know what was happening and... Read more »

Some of those people are policymakers, who have been trying hard to respond to the problems AI products pose without reducing our ability to harness their power.  So at the beginning of... Read more »

Every year for the past 20+ years, MIT Technology Review has selected a list of the breakthrough technologies that will have the greatest impact on how we live and work in the... Read more »