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Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
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Aug 31, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
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Aug 28, 2026·1 min read
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How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
MIT Technology Review ’s How To series helps you get things done.
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Aug 28, 2026·1 min read
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A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable co…
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Aug 27, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
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Aug 27, 2026·1 min read
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Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining.
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Aug 27, 2026·1 min read
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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today .
MIT Technology Review
Aug 26, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
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MIT Technology Review
Aug 26, 2026·1 min read
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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning.
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Aug 26, 2026·1 min read
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Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 26, 2026·1 min read
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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 26, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 25, 2026·1 min read
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I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
Humanoid robots are having a moment in China.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 25, 2026·1 min read
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Welcome to the spiderverse, a world measured through webs
Counting the creatures in the world around us is critical for a raft of conservation efforts.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 25, 2026·1 min read
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How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
This article is from Making AI Work , MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 24, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 24, 2026·1 min read
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Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 24, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 21, 2026·1 min read
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This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 21, 2026·1 min read
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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its gener…
MIT Technology Review
Aug 21, 2026·1 min read
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Mother tongue
“Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 21, 2026·1 min read
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 20, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
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MIT Technology Review
Aug 20, 2026·1 min read
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The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 20, 2026·1 min read
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Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights.
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Aug 20, 2026·1 min read
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Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 20, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 19, 2026·1 min read
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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 19, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 18, 2026·1 min read
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We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 18, 2026·1 min read
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 18, 2026·1 min read
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The role of the astronaut is in flux
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured from Earth, surpassing the distance set by Apollo 13 in 1972…
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Aug 18, 2026·1 min read
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What Flock’s defenders are missing
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 17, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 17, 2026·1 min read
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What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 17, 2026·1 min read
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How much hydrogen awaits us underground?
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 17, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 14, 2026·1 min read
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Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 14, 2026·1 min read
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Job titles of the future: Space travel agent
Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild travel dreams into reality.
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Aug 14, 2026·1 min read
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This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood
In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 14, 2026·1 min read
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Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography
Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 13, 2026·1 min read
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Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid…
MIT Technology Review
Aug 13, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 13, 2026·1 min read
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What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Aug 13, 2026·1 min read
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How kids feel about AI, in their own words
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 13, 2026·1 min read
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Scientists just created female clones of male mice
Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 12, 2026·1 min read
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Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 12, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 12, 2026·1 min read
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How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever tech…
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Aug 12, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 11, 2026·1 min read
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AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 10, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 10, 2026·1 min read
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These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
MIT Technology Review ’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future.
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Aug 10, 2026·1 min read
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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 10, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 07, 2026·1 min read
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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations , with support from the Wayne Barrett Project.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 07, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 06, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
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Aug 05, 2026·1 min read
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NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 05, 2026·1 min read
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The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
MIT Technology Review
Aug 04, 2026·1 min read