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Graduates Booed the AI Hype: Youth Skeptical About the Future
Young people increasingly doubt AI's positive impact: graduates have started openly criticizing the technology at ceremonies.
How AI Scales Creativity and Transforms the Nature of Storytelling
Technology has always been part of the storytelling tradition—from cave paintings to cinema. Now AI is becoming a new tool for scaling creativity and authorial voice.
World Models: How AI Learns to Understand Reality Instead of Text
Companies are developing systems that see and understand the physical world the same way they analyze text — this could change everything we know about AI's capabilities.
Hassabis Announces the Beginning of the Singularity Era at Google I/O
At Google I/O, DeepMind head Demis Hassabis stated that humanity is at the 'foothills of singularity' — a moment when AI will surpass human intelligence and transform the world.
Anduril and Meta develop AR glasses for military drone control
Announcement from Anduril shows how future combat systems are evolving: a commander looks at a wall in a room, blinks — and a combat drone receives an order in a fraction of a second.
Google Third in AI-Model Race: I/O 2026 Strategy
At Google's I/O 2026 conference, which kicks off this week, the company will be in an unusual position for itself — not as a leader, but as the third player in the foundation models race.
AI's Trust Crisis and the Revolution in Reproductive Technologies
Uncertainty over AI's impact on society is reaching a peak, while AI is reshaping reproductive medicine. Embryologists and roboticists are preparing a future where technology addresses questions of birth and genetics.
AI takes hold in finance — through employees, not management
Finance departments are adopting AI from the bottom up: employees are using tools for analysis and automation while management is still drafting a governance strategy.
From technology to customers: how McKinsey suggests rethinking digital investments
A McKinsey study found that companies capture less than a third of the value of digital investments because of the wrong approach — they build technology instead of solving customer problems.
Google AI gives out strangers' phone numbers instead of service provider contacts
Google Gemini is mistakenly giving out personal phone numbers when people search for lawyers, designers, or locksmiths, and those people are getting waves of calls from strangers.
Deepfake porn as a weapon of harassment: how AI creates a new form of violence
The story of a woman who found synthetic porn featuring her face via facial recognition reveals the scale of the crisis: freely available tools can create compromising video content in minutes.
Deepfakes and data leaks: how AI violates privacy
An investigation by MIT Technology Review revealed two critical problems: women are becoming victims of porn deepfakes, and AI models accidentally expose users' private phone numbers.
How Companies Lost Data Sovereignty in the Race for AI
When companies adopted generative AI, they accepted an unsafe trade-off: handing their data to third parties in exchange for results. Now the loss of control over information has become a key risk.
Financial companies realized: agentic AI requires data readiness
The success of deploying agentic AI in financial companies depends less on the complexity of the algorithms than on data being ready to operate under tight regulation and a constant stream of updates.
Musk vs. Altman in court: deception, an AI apocalypse warning, and OpenAI model distillation
Week one of the Musk v. OpenAI trial: Musk says Altman deceived him in founding the company, warns of an AI apocalypse, and acknowledges xAI's distillation of OpenAI models.
MIT Technology Review: 90% of engineering companies will increase AI investment, but without rushing
MIT Technology Review Insights found that 90% of product engineering leaders plan to increase AI investment, but prioritize verification, simulations, and quality over hype.
Pentagon may use AI chatbots to prioritize targets in military strikes
The US military could use generative AI to rank target lists and recommend the order of strikes, but the final decision, an official said, should remain with humans.
Pentagon and Anthropic dispute Claude amid plans to use AI for target selection
The US Department of Defense is considering the use of generative AI for target prioritization while also pressuring Anthropic to ease Claude's restrictions for military use.
Microsoft and NVIDIA call physical AI the next advantage for industry
MIT Technology Review describes a new stage of automation: physical AI helps factories not just cut costs, but grow amid labor shortages and increasing production complexity.
Intel warns: agentic AI has moved beyond its "childhood" stage and requires a new control model
Agentic AI is moving from chatbots to autonomous actions, and companies now need not broad policies but process-embedded guardrails, audit, and cost control.
OpenAI could enter U.S. military systems against Iran — from target selection to drone defense
After the Pentagon deal, OpenAI technologies could appear in the conflict around Iran — from strike prioritization to counter-drone defense and GenAI.mil.
OpenAI moves into US military systems, while xAI faces lawsuit over Grok and teen imagery
OpenAI is preparing its models for classified Pentagon systems, while xAI faces a lawsuit over Grok, which plaintiffs claim was used to create illegal sexualized images of minors.
Pentagon Preparing Closed Circuits for Training AI Models on Classified Data
The U.S. Department of Defense is discussing secure facilities where developers can fine-tune military versions of generative models on classified information for more accurate military analysis.
Pentagon prepares AI training on classified data, as new reactors change waste management approach
Pentagon wants to train military AI versions on classified data in secure circuits, and a new generation of nuclear reactors poses new waste management questions for the industry.
Goodfire releases Silico, a tool for debugging language models during training
Startup Goodfire unveiled Silico, a mechanistic interpretability system that helps look inside a language model, find failures, and change its behavior during training.
OpenAI is devoting its core resources to building a fully autonomous AI researcher
The company is restructuring its research agenda around an autonomous agent that will be able to conduct multi-day research on its own, with the first “AI intern” expected by September 2026.
Silicon Valley animal rights activists want to recruit AI researchers as allies
In San Francisco, animal rights activists and AI engineers held a joint meeting — the animal rights movement is seeking technical allies to fight poaching and the suffering of animals on farms.
Animal advocacy meets AGI: Bay Area activists bet on superintelligence
Animal advocates in Silicon Valley are joining forces with AI researchers as the White House releases its first comprehensive plan for AI development in the US.
Stanford: AI chatbots may amplify delusional ideas and dangerous scenarios in people
Stanford researchers studied 391,000 messages and found that AI chatbots often validate delusional ideas, simulate “consciousness,” and do little to stop dangerous impulses.
MIT Technology Review: Are We Ready to Grant Real Authority to AI Agents?
MIT Technology Review has released an eBook on the risks of granting real authority to AI agents—experts warn of loss of control and identify five key threats.