AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This will be sold as...
Startup’s autonomous drones precisely track warehouse inventories
Whether you’re a fulfillment center, a manufacturer, or a distributor, speed is king. But getting products out the door quickly requires workers to know where those products are located in...
The next generation of neural networks could live in hardware
Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that underpin most modern AI systems. That’s according to...
What the US can learn from Australia’s social media ban for kids
The road to hell is paved with good intentions — and so is the path to a potential surveillance state. After losing its high-profile case in the US Court of...
Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships...
Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images
Try taking a picture of each of North America’s roughly 11,000 tree species, and you’ll have a mere fraction of the millions of photos within nature image datasets. These massive collections...
Accelerating AI innovation through application modernization
Business applications powered by AI are revolutionizing customer experiences, accelerating the speed of business, and driving employee productivity. In fact, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Global State...
How Trump-brokered deal could ‘save’ TikTok as ban deadline looms
President-elect Trump could keep his pledge to “save” TikTok -– and still address national security concerns that spurred Congress to authorize a ban — by brokering a sale of the...
Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality
It’s an interesting idea, and it is fun to see the idea of an AI agent explored within the relatively benign realm of artistic expression. That said, Botto still poses...
MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build...
AI’s search for more energy is growing more urgent
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. If you drove by one of...
US to require passenger vehicles to sound alarms if rear passengers don’t fasten their seat belts
Starting in September of 2027, all new passenger vehicles in the U.S. will have to sound a warning if rear-seat passengers don’t buckle up. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous jungle. But Johor has a new boom industry: data centers to power generative...
Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar
Lara Ozkan, an MIT senior from Oradell, New Jersey, has been selected as a 2025 Marshall Scholar and will begin graduate studies in the United Kingdom next fall. Funded by...
AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further
It’s no secret that the current AI boom is using up immense amounts of energy. Now we have a better idea of how much. A new paper, from a team...
