For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under ...

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Jeff Dean is leaving to start a new AI company After 27 years at Google, the company’s former chief scientist is launching ...

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Magrathea’s new electrolyzer can make magnesium using electricity. A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

After growing up without reliable power at home, Iwnetim Abate is working to develop a steady supply of sustainable energy. Iwnetim Abate is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35.

It’s a dramatic illustration of just how good AI models have gotten at hacking: In order to get into Hugging Face’s databases ...

The FCC has banned foreign-made humanoids, making a fragile, nascent sector part of America’s AI industrial policy.

A decade-old experiment showed OpenAI how far an AI will go to achieve the goals it’s given.  This story originally appeared ...

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According to OpenAI, the models decided to solve a cybersecurity exercise by hacking out of the environment in which OpenAI ...