15+ hour, 22+ min ago   (513+ words) How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I'd pick the video of rabbits bouncing on a trampoline that went viral last summer. For…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1751+ words) They're the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do? MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what's coming next....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (345+ words) And why we're predicting what's next for the technology in 2026 anyway. Sometimes AI feels like a niche topic to write about, but then the holidays happen, and I hear relatives of all ages talking about cases of chatbot-induced psychosis, blaming…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (706+ words) There's new interest and funding for the field, but it's waiting for its breakthrough moment. Judging from headlines and social media posts in recent years, one might reasonably assume that AI is going to fix the power grid, cure the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (283+ words) Plus: the Trump administration wants to hire back all those tech experts that DOGE fired The great AI hype correction of 2025 Quantum navigation could solve the military's GPS jamming problem 7 The majority of the world's glaciers are forecast to disappear…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (763+ words) The hype we have been sold for the past few years has been overwhelming. Hype Correction is the antidote. Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1501+ words) Startups flush with cash are spinning up AI-assisted laboratories with the hope of finding new materials much faster. Later, a person will walk the samples, each containing multiple potential catalysts, over to a different part of the lab for testing....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1633+ words) Four ways to think about this year's reckoning Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry'and several world economies. Millions of people started talking to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (588+ words) It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (324+ words) Plus: Trump says he'll sign an order blocking states from regulating AI. The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030" There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative AI. In…...