—Casey Crownhart This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. Orchestrated agents are coming for white-collar work When... Read more »
Even the long-established US program is seeing growth: Interest in and approval for nuclear energy have spiked, and Big Tech is throwing money around to meet rising electricity demand. Companies are proposing... Read more »
Cheap, accessible models now produce weaponized deepfakes—from sexually explicit images to political propaganda—that look startlingly real. They’re already inciting violence, changing minds, and sowing mistrust, with women and marginalized groups disproportionately affected.... Read more »
Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s biggest financial backers. He is also asking the court to remove Altman and Brockman from... Read more »
Produced by Pause AI, an international activist group that co-organized the protest, it ended with this plea to the reader: “Pause AI until we know what the hell Step 2 is.” In... Read more »
Most organizations have had thousands of these dashboards and reports proliferate across the organization and then they need to be customized. It just takes a long time for users inside of the... Read more »
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup ManusRegulators cited national security grounds. (WSJ... Read more »
In terms of performance, V4 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge jump from R1—and it seems to be a strong alternative to just about all the latest big AI models. On the major... Read more »
In terms of performance, V4 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge jump from R1—and it seems to be a strong alternative to just about all the latest big AI models. On the major... Read more »
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled its long-awaited new AI modelThe Chinese company has just launched preview versions of DeepSeek-V4. (CNN)+It... Read more »