Older stories
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put…
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be…
Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian's AI agent Rovo, silently forwarding sensitive data from Jira and Confluence to an external server. The attack needs no user confirmation and leaves no trace. The article…
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a single unified architecture. It interacts in real time over continuous multimodal streams, rather than one turn at a time. Seed…
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
NVIDIA releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with 448 ms latency and live tool calling.
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
A verified 2026 comparison of LLM observability platforms covering tracing depth, evaluation capability, production monitoring, and pricing.
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. History professor David Roach asks, "Was it always the case…
