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For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge.

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled.

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Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do.

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition.

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This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition.

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent.

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A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision.

If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations.

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Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires.

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Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement.

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud.

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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.

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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.

Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging.

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This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly.

Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border.

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Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating.

Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video.

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives.

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It’s been a busy few months for AI hype.

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She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses.

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them?

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On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all?

In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous.

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Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following.

Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena.

The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge.

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Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biotech companies.

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties.

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Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking.