How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

Afterward, he worked at Komatsu Manufacturing—because, he said, he liked bulldozers. But in 1974, he saw…

These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy

A new report from the International Energy Agency digs into the details of energy and AI,…

NASA has made an air traffic control system for drones

Over the past decade, NASA and industry have demonstrated to the FAA through a series of…

We need targeted policies, not blunt tariffs, to drive “American energy dominance”

MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related…

Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as…

Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities

In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on…

The State Department office countering foreign disinformation is being eliminated, officials say

In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to…

Adapting for AI’s reasoning era

As AI systems that learn by mimicking the mechanisms of the human brain continue to advance,…

The Download: How AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment

While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different…

How Colossal Biosciences is attempting to own the “woolly mammoth”

Revive & Restore, a de-extinction organization in Sausalito, California, that is working toward reviving the passenger…

What is vibe coding, exactly?

“There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to…

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems

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Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

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A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want

The volunteers running the experiment were not completely hands-off. Submitted ideas were screened according to a…

The Download: Tracking the evolution of street drugs, and the next wave of military AI

In 2021, the Maryland Department of Health and the state police were confronting a crisis: Fatal…

A New Mexico Man Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to a Tesla Showroom

A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at…

This architect wants to build cities out of lava

Pálmadóttir today lives in Reykjavik, where she runs her own architecture studio, S.AP Arkitektar, and the…

How the federal government is tracking changes in the supply of street drugs

There, a research chemist named Ed Sisco and his team had developed methods for detecting trace…

Phase two of military AI has arrived

As I also write in my story, this push raises alarms from some AI safety experts…

Nvidia pledges to build its own factories in the U.S. for the first time to make AI supercomputers

Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for…

Xaba raises $6M from Hitachi Ventures to build synthetic brains for industrial robots

Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has secured…

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to…