In various tests, solo AI agents invented versions of basketball and “the floor is lava.” But were they truly playing?

Nowadays big advances are made by scaling up—think more chips packed into ever-bigger data centers. But as we near the ...

These scientists hope that fire-spotting satellites, AI tools and ancient land practices could preserve the world’s ...

Making concrete, steel, and chemicals takes huge amounts of heat, much of it generated by burning fossil fuels. X-energy ...

MIT and a visiting researcher at Nvidia. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech. He studies the fundamental physical limits of information technologies and builds integrated ...

Age gates can be staggeringly counterproductive, pushing kids to darker corners of the web. Closing loopholes will only make ...

C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say ...

DARPA is funding a redoubled effort to develop a shelf-stable substitute for what field medics and trauma doctors need most: ...

In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant ...

Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers.

Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an ...

Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is ...