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Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems

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 »

The Download: Twitter killers, and how China regulates AI

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 »

Four things to know about China’s new AI rules in 2024

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 »

The Download: Apple Vision Pro, and how AI judges gymnastics

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 »

How AI is changing gymnastics judging 

JSS supporters also hope AI in gymnastics will have the power to eliminate the inevitable biases that humans bring to the judging booth. As it currently stands, judging is not particularly transparent;... Read more »

Why everyone’s excited about household robots again

I have a chair of shame at home. By that I mean a chair in my bedroom onto which I pile used clothes that aren’t quite dirty enough to wash. For some... Read more »

Outperforming competitors as a data-driven organization

“Companies need to have the necessary data foundations, data ecosystems, and data culture to embrace an AI-driven operating model,” says Akhilesh Ayer, executive vice president and global head of AI, analytics, data, and... Read more »

The Download: super-efficient solar cells, and helpful robots

In November 2023, a buzzy solar technology broke yet another world record for efficiency. The previous record had existed for only about five months—and it likely won’t be long before it too... Read more »

The FTC’s unprecedented move against data brokers, explained

“The FTC’s action is significant because of the prohibitions—barring the company from selling data about sensitive locations, rather than just paying fines,” says Justin Sherman, an adjunct professor at Duke’s Sanford School... Read more »

Watch this robot cook shrimp and clean autonomously

The researchers taught the robot, called Mobile ALOHA (an acronym for “a low-cost open-source hardware teleoperation system for bimanual operation”), seven different tasks requiring a variety of mobility and dexterity skills, such... Read more »