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.…
A federal magistrate judge in Colorado reports that AI tools have driven a doubling of court filings from unrepresented litigants since 2023, but the technology has not improved their chances of winni…
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, aiming to go public as early as this fall and potentially beating rival OpenAI to the stock market. The AI company did not disclose i…
London-based private tutor Sam Finnegan-Dehn is using Notion AI to automate administrative tasks like invoicing, meeting summaries, and goal-setting for his part-time math and philosophy tutoring busi…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates after telling them their task is to help shape AI, with similar jeers occurring at commencements at the University of Centra…
MIT Technology Review released a list of 10 key AI trends at its EmTech AI event, aiming to help readers navigate the rapid pace of developments in artificial intelligence. Separately, the publication…
Key technology news, including a lawsuit by researchers against the Trump administration over a visa policy they argue threatens online safety and free speech. It also covers climate tech companies li…
Boston Metal, a startup originally known for developing technology to decarbonize steel production, has raised $75 million to pivot its focus toward producing critical metals like niobium, tantalum, a…
Colossal Biosciences has announced the development of a "fully artificial egg" using 3D-printed plastic cups to grow chickens, aiming to eventually resurrect extinct birds like the dodo and giant moa,…
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, where he accused CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman of deceiving him about the company's non-profit status. The article promotes a subscriber-only ro…