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DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand. However, these tokens quickly become expensive to... Read more »

Roundtables: Seeking Climate Solutions in Turbulent Times

Companies are pursuing climate solutions amid shifting U.S. politics and economic uncertainty. Drawing from MIT Technology Review’s 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, this session highlights the most promising technologies—from electric... Read more »

Finding return on AI investments across industries

Most enterprises would automatically prioritize confidentiality of their data and design business workflows to maintain trade secrets. From an economic value point of view, especially considering how costly every model API call... Read more »

The Download: Microsoft’s stance on erotic AI, and an AI hype mystery

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is taking AI in a dangerous direction by building chatbots... Read more »

“We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman

In an ideal world, what kind of chatbot do you want to build? You’ve just launched a bunch of updates to Copilot. How do you get the balance right when you’re building... Read more »

An AI adoption riddle

But it could also be that the unbelievable speed of AI progress and adoption has made me think industries are more sensitive to news than they perhaps should be. I spoke with... Read more »

The Download: what to make of OpenAI’s Atlas browser, and how to make climate progress

Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport Clear Secure is the most visible biometric identity company in the United States. Best known for its line-jumping service in airports, it’s... Read more »

I tried OpenAI’s new Atlas browser but I still don’t know what it’s for

I would guess that it took 10 minutes or so for it to do all that. I cleaned out my cart and considered myself lucky that it didn’t buy anything.   When I... Read more »

Stand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, security, and prosperity Our community is... Read more »

The Download: carbon removal’s future, and measuring pain using an app

1 Meta’s lawyers advised workers to remove parts of its teen mental health researchIts counsel told researchers to block or update their work to reduce legal liability. (Bloomberg $)+ Meta recently laid... Read more »