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The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

Training versions of AI models on classified data is expected to make them more accurate and effective in certain tasks, according to a US defense official who spoke on background with MIT... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

Quote of the day  “The inference inflection has arrived.”  —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims we’ve reached a tipping point where AI usage is accelerating faster than its development, AP reports.  One More Thing  Meet the... Read more »

Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran

It’s unclear what OpenAI’s motivations are. It’s not the first tech giant to embrace military contracts it had once vowed never to enter into, but the speed of the pivot was notable.... Read more »

Nurturing agentic AI beyond the toddler stage

The accountability challenge: It’s not them, it’s you Until now, governance has been focused on model output risks with humans in the loop before consequential decisions were made—such as with loan approvals... Read more »

The Download: glass chips and “AI-free” logos

This year, a South Korean company called Absolics will start producing special glass panels that make next-generation computing hardware more powerful and efficient. Other companies, including Intel, are also pushing forward in this area.  ... Read more »

Securing digital assets against future threats

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

Why physical AI is becoming manufacturing’s next advantage

Microsoft and NVIDIA: Accelerating physical AI at scale Physical AI cannot be delivered through point solutions. It requires agentic-driven, enterprise-grade development, deployment, and operations toolchains and workflows that connect simulation, data, AI models,... Read more »

The Download: how AI is used for military targeting, and the Pentagon’s war on Claude

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”  —OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes a new pitch to investors... Read more »

Future AI chips could be built on glass

“As AI workloads surge and package sizes expand, the industry is confronting very real mechanical constraints that impact the trajectory of high-performance computing,” says Deepak Kulkarni, a senior fellow at the chip... Read more »

A defense official reveals how AI chatbots could be used for targeting decisions

The official described this as an example of how things might work but would not confirm or deny whether it represents how AI systems are currently being used. Other outlets have reported... Read more »