Screenshots from development versions of iRobot's Roomba J7 series, captured in 2020, were leaked online after being shared by gig workers in Venezuela who labeled the data for Scale AI. The images in…
At EmTech AI 2026, OpenAI's Head of Engineering for ChatGPT, Sulman Choudhry, discussed how his work is transforming daily life. The event highlighted the rise of AI platforms and their growing impact…
The UK generational tobacco ban, which makes it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone born after a certain year, is supported by a writer despite enforcement challenges because it reinforces a cultural…
Woodside Energy vice president for digital Andrew Melouney says the company is scaling AI across industrial operations, using systems like the 'Startup Advisor' copilot to augment human expertise in h…
Organizations with mature process frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and BPM are best positioned to leverage AI for operational excellence, as AI can accelerate process optimization but requires existing …
Woodside Energy is building toward an autonomous enterprise by integrating AI into industrial operations, focusing on governance, trusted data, and human augmentation. The company's vice president for…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a flagship product for scientific research with tools for computational biology and drug development, signaling a major push into AI for science. Meanwhile, Californ…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to restrict its next AI model release, requiring government approval for initial users before a wider launch. This marks the first time the US has imposed suc…
Macy's senior director of engineering Murali Murugan says the retailer is adopting an 'AI-first' approach to embed intelligence into personalization, search, and operations, aiming to make digital ret…
The carbon footprint of AI is projected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 44% through 2025, with computational costs doubling every few months. Training a single large NLP model can emit as much carbon as f…
Subquadratic, a Miami AI startup, claims to have broken through the transformer attention bottleneck that limits large language models, introducing Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) to enable effici…
Subquadratic founders Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon released third-party benchmarks from Appen to support their claim that SubQ, a sparse-attention LLM, outperforms dense transformers on long-context …
MIT Technology Review released an exclusive subscriber-only eBook compiling six stories on how militaries are using AI models for decision-making, including generative AI for spying, AI chatbots for t…
Casey Harrell, a man with ALS, has become the first "power user" of a speech brain-computer interface, using it to speak, surf the web, and work. Meanwhile, South Korea shows the highest optimism towa…
Anthropic shut down access to its top AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US directive barred foreigners from using them, with the company disabling access globally due to inability to filter users…
A developer warns that AI datacenters' water consumption is projected to reach crisis levels by 2030, citing a UN report that AI water use could equal the domestic needs of Sub-Saharan Africa. Active …
Anthropic has released a "safe" version of its Mythos AI model, promising sufficient guardrails and user limitations after previously claiming the system was too dangerous to release. The new model ca…
OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, targeting a valuation of up to $1 trillion and a potential listing as early as September. The move follows similar IPO filings from ri…
At SXSW London, MIT Technology Review senior editor Will Douglas Heaven outlined five key themes shaping artificial intelligence in 2026, including the mundane use of generative AI tools for office ta…
Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, including those linked to former President Barack Obama, retailer Sephora, and a senior U.S. Space Force official.…