2 OpenAI’s parental controls are easily circumvented Its alerts about teenagers’ concerning conversations also took hours to deliver. (WP $)+ The looming crackdown on AI companionship. (MIT Technology Review) 3 VCs have sunk... Read more »

“The patch is incomplete, and the state of the art is changing. But this isn’t a one-and-done thing. It’s the start of even more testing,” says Adam Clore, director of technology R&D... Read more »

1 OpenAI has become the world’s most valuable startupMove aside, SpaceX. (Bloomberg $)+ OpenAI is now valued at an eye-watering $500 billion. (FT $)+ The valuation came after workers sold around $6.6... Read more »

Ultimately, it’s not terribly surprising that there are local effects around these policy changes. “The question is really how long this decline will last, and how slowly any recovery in the growth... Read more »

“There’s still a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace around VMware,” explains Matt Crognale, senior director, migrations and modernization at cloud modernization firm Effectual, adding that the VMware portfolio has been streamlined... Read more »

Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes dozens of young researchers on our Innovators Under 35 list. We checked back in with recent honorees to see how they’re faring amid sweeping changes to science and... Read more »

Capturing, documenting, and distributing knowledge at scale is critical to organizational success with AI. Yet our survey showed only 16% of respondents say their workflows are extremely well-documented. The top barriers to... Read more »

Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to an MIT Technology Review investigation. Though CEO Sam Altman boasted about India being its second-largest market during the launch of GPT-5... Read more »

Stereotypical imagery When we tested Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, we found that it, too, is marred by harmful caste stereotypes. Sora generates both videos and images from a text prompt, and we... Read more »