How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.” Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist...
Russian Telegram founder Pavel Durov — with 100 kids already — offers to pay IVF costs for any woman under 37 who wants to use his sperm
The Russian billionaire who founded messaging app Telegram is fighting infertility, but he isn’t using his wallet — he is using his own sperm. Pavel Durov, 41, has offered to...
OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year
OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a...
Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential
Even networks long considered “untrainable” can learn effectively with a bit of a helping hand. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have shown that a brief...
The fast and the future-focused are revolutionizing motorsport
When the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship launched its first race through Beijing’s Olympic Park in 2014, the idea of all-electric motorsport still bordered on experimental. Batteries couldn’t yet...
Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial...
WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, and Amazon’s AI Ambitions
Leah Feiger: So it’s a really good question actually, and it’s one that I’ve thought about for quite some time. I think if it’s not annoying, I want to read...
Researchers discover a shortcoming that makes LLMs less reliable
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study. Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical...
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative...
