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The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk discreetly bought a $1 billion gas turbine firm to power GrokHe acquired fossil fuel company... Read more »

Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US

These stats are especially striking at this moment, because a key tax credit for heat pumps just ended with the close of 2025. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the... Read more »

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

As LLMs become more complex and get used in a wider variety of tasks—especially in the form of agents, which can interact with computer files, websites, and third-party code as well as... Read more »

The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated... Read more »

The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models

When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models’ “internal thoughts” as they reason through answers, there was one colleague I had to talk to: senior... Read more »

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

Into the unknown The outsider with perhaps the best guess of whether PsiQuantum will succeed is the Pentagon. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the Pentagon’s research and development arm—has been running... Read more »

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

One niche that Anthropic spends more time and money on than other AI companies is called mechanistic interpretability, which means looking inside the complex math of an AI model to learn why... Read more »

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secretsOpenAI purportedly stole IP to develop its own... Read more »

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

“I think we’re going to enable a larger-scale use and adoption of it that could be meaningful to agriculture,” he says, adding: “These will become basically soil production facilities.”  Concerns Determining how... Read more »

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

Context engineering relies on a modernized, unified data foundation as well as retrieval and memory systems such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases. It also requires careful prioritization to determine... Read more »