Subscribe to our Newsletter

How much wildfire prevention is too much?

It’s a wild promise, and one that my colleague James Temple dug into for his most recent story. (You should read the whole thing; there’s a ton of fascinating history and quirky... Read more »

Online harassment is entering its AI era

Regardless of whether or not the agent’s owner told it to write a hit piece on Shambaugh, it still seems to have managed on its own to amass details about Shambaugh’s online... Read more »

Bridging the operational AI gap

To understand how organizations are structuring their AI operations and how they are deploying successful AI projects, MIT Technology Review Insights surveyed 500 senior IT leaders at mid- to large-size companies in... Read more »

The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 How Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is being used for US strikes on IranIt’s helping to identify... Read more »

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal

Startup Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent catastrophic fires by stopping the lightning strikes that ignite them. So far, it hasn’t publicly revealed how it does so, but online documents suggest the company is... Read more »

This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires

Skyward’s diagrams show planes dropping particles into clouds to prevent cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in “high risk areas.” The company also notes in the document that it uses artificial intelligence for a number... Read more »

I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests yet

Most people I spoke to agreed that technology companies probably wouldn’t take any notice of this kind of protest. “I don’t think that the pressure on companies will ever work,” Maxime Fournes,... Read more »

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

There’s another question beneath all this: Should it be down to tech companies to prohibit things that are legal but that they find morally objectionable? The government certainly viewed Anthropic’s willingness to... Read more »

The Download: protesting AI, and what’s floating in space

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Pentagon wanted Anthropic to analyze bulk data collected from Americans It proved the sticking point in... Read more »

I checked out one of the biggest anti-AI protests ever

And yet despite that urgency, the atmosphere at the march was pleasant, even fun. There was no sense of anger and little sense that lives—let alone the survival of our species—was at... Read more »