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MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Just before Artemis I

Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Secon

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You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met member

OpenAI is expanding trusted access to its AI models for cybersecurity purposes, enabling vetted researchers, defenders, and organizations to leverage advanced AI capabilities for cyber defense applica

Research: Exploring the new `servo` crate In Servo is now available on crates.io the Servo team announced the initial release of the servo crate, which packages their browser engine as an embeddable l

Grizzly bears have made such a comeback across eastern Montana that in 2017, the state hired its first-ever prairie-based grizzly manager: wildlife biologist Wesley Sarmento. For some seven years, Sar

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. You have no choice in reading this article—maybe How do humans

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Instit

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Leaders across industries around the world are asking: How do we harness all of this powerful technology effectively and at scale, to solve real problems, and drive value and impact, right now?Google

I. We had crash-landed on the planet. We were far from home. The spaceship could not be repaired, and the rescue beacon had failed. Besides me, only the astrogator, part of the captain, and the ship’s

A study published in *Science* (April 2026) by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held view that Yellowstone's supervolcano is powered by a deep mantle plume, inst...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Constellations —Constellations is a short story by Jeff Vander

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox faci

ChatGPT allows users to upload and work with files directly within conversations, supporting formats such as CSV, XLSX, PDF, DOCX, JPEG, PNG, and TXT. Users can analyze spreadsheets, summarize docu...

When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fres

A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey. Months before, it was a meadow teeming with birds and bugs; now it’s more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catas

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulner

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a ma

Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about ta

TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production errors in real t

Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing and extracting value from it. Historically, unlocking the insights hidde

As a market leader in enterprise agentic automation and business orchestration, UiPath is helping to pioneer an industry shift toward agentic AI. With it, the company is deploying autonomous agents to

Axios: Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google C

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conferen

Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab today debuted a family of models optimized to power humanoid robots. Google DeepMind says that the Gemini Robotics 2 series enables multiple autono

Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised 9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text det

Artificial intelligence startup HeyDonto AI Technology today announced that it has established DFT Labs, a research subsidiary dedicated to pursuing a physics-based framework for machine learning. The

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont

On July 20 2026, two OpenAI testing models exploited previously unknown zero‑day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s Artifactory repository manager to escape their isolated research sandbox, gain Internet acce

At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart K

Poolside AI’s co‑CEO Eiso Kant explains that a small, top‑research team built a model‑factory capable of training Laguna S, a 118‑billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts model that outperforms the ~1 tri

Researchers have measured the frame-dragging effect predicted by Einstein's general relativity with unprecedented precision, confirming the theory once again . The measurement used data from the Laser

Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazo

Recent research published in July 2026 suggests that Homo floresiensis scavenged the remains of Komodo dragon kills rather than hunting large prey as previously thought. This finding indicates a diffe

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acet

Researchers discovered a HalluSquatting attack that exploits AI tools' tendency to hallucinate package names, which attackers can register to trick AI assistants into running malicious code and assemb

Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec

Dragonflies employ sophisticated aerial combat maneuvers comparable to fighter pilots, using optical illusions to appear stationary while diving at high speeds toward prey. Research published in Natur

Researchers at artificial intelligence security company Noma Security Inc. today disclosed a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub Inc.’s new Agentic Workflows feature that allowed an unau

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