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- by Rhiannon WilliamsThis 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. Three things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version of the World Energy Outlook, the annual report that takes stock of the current state…
- by Casey CrownhartOne of the dominant storylines I’ve been following through 2025 is electricity—where and how demand is going up, how much it costs, and how this all intersects with that topic everyone is talking about: AI. Last week, the International Energy Agency released the latest version of the World Energy Outlook, the annual report that takes…
- by MIT Technology Review InsightsManufacturing is getting a major system upgrade. As AI amplifies existing technologies—like digital twins, the cloud, edge computing, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT)—it is enabling factory operations teams to shift from reactive, isolated problem-solving to proactive, systemwide optimization. Digital twins—physically accurate virtual representations of a piece of equipment, a production line, a process,…
- by Rhiannon WilliamsThis 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. Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1 The news: A group of quantum physicists at Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek…
- by Caiwei ChenA group of quantum physicists claims to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into the original by its Chinese creators. The scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specializing in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that is 55% smaller…
- by MIT Technology Review InsightsThe Ryder Cup is an almost-century-old tournament pitting Europe against the United States in an elite showcase of golf skill and strategy. At the 2025 event, nearly a quarter of a million spectators gathered to watch three days of fierce competition on the fairways. From a technology and logistics perspective, pulling off an event of…
- by MIT Technology Review InsightsTraining an AI model to predict equipment failures is an engineering achievement. But it’s not until prediction meets action—the moment that model successfully flags a malfunctioning machine—that true business transformation occurs. One technical milestone lives in a proof-of-concept deck; the other meaningfully contributes to the bottom line. Craig Partridge, senior director worldwide of Digital Next…
- by Caiwei ChenGoogle today unveiled Gemini 3, a major upgrade to its flagship multimodal model. The firm says the new model is better at reasoning, has more fluid multimodal capabilities (the ability to work across voice, text or images), and will work like an agent. The previous model, Gemini 2.5, supports multimodal input. Users can feed it…
- by Rhiannon WilliamsThis 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. The State of AI: How war will be changed forever —Helen Warrell & James O’Donnell It is July 2027, and China is on the brink of invading Taiwan. Autonomous drones with AI targeting…
- by Helen Warrell and James O'DonnellWelcome 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 AI revolution reshaping global power. In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s…
- by Aisha MalikNow, when users search for places in Map like restaurants, hotels, or concert venues, they'll see a new "know before you go" tips section that will surface important information about the place.
- by Sarah PerezQuora's AI platform Poe now lets users engage in group chats with up to 200 people across AI models and bots.
- by Aisha MalikTo get started, users need to describe where, when, and how they want to travel. Flight Deals will then use AI to display the best bargains available.
- by Maggie Nye, Anthony HaA new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that $580 billion will be spent globally on AI data centers in 2025 alone. This is $40 billion more than will be spent on new oil supplies — leading us to conclude that data centers are the new oil fields. But is this a net […]
- by Sarah PerezApple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.
- by Dominic-Madori DavisA German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.
- by Maggie NyeIn this episode recorded live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, TechCrunch’s editor-in-chief Connie Loizos talks with Roelof Botha about Sequoia’s approach to finding and backing outlier companies — just days before he announced he was stepping down from the firm. Loizos and Botha discuss why he thinks venture capital isn’t really an asset class, how Sequoia’s […]
- by Russell BrandomMeta's AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.
- by Sarah PerezZoom CEO Eric Yuan says that, in a few years, we should be working a three- to four-day workweek because of AI.
- by Tage Kene-OkaforRudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, grew an AI note-taker app to five million users and an eight-figure ARR, they say.
- by Kirsten KorosecThe U.S. automaker's technological overhaul will debut in two years with the Cadillac Escalade IQ.
- by Sarah PerezSpotify's AI DJ now takes text commands and accepts Spanish-language music requests by voice.
- by Sarah PerezDesigned for one-on-one meetings, the tool lets you insert available time slots directly into an email, automatically creating a calendar invite once a recipient selects a time.
- by Sarah PerezGoogle is rolling out updates to Search and Discover that introduce AI-powered features, improved navigation, and a new option to collapse ads. While users can now hide sponsored results, the “Sponsored” label will remain visible as they scroll — making ads persistent even when collapsed. Additional changes include new sports updates in Search and AI-driven topic previews in the Discover feed, launching first in the U.S., South Korea, and India.
- by Dominic-Madori Davis“We have witnessed the explosion of unregulated artificial intelligence, heard more and more stories from heartbroken families, and watched parents all over the world become increasingly concerned about their children’s digital lives,” Prince Harry said at the Project Healthy Minds gala.
- by Russell BrandomZendesk has launched a new autonomous support agent that should solve 80% of support issues without human intervention.
- by Aisha MalikThe app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan.
- by Amanda SilberlingSwifties love a puzzle, but some were rubbed the wrong way by a promotional scavenger hunt which appeared to use AI-generated videos.
- by Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiHundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
- by Sarah PerezOpenAI's Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch.
- Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a year of quiet development — a bold pivot by a startup that once had 20 million users and $43 million in the bank building something completely different.The San Francisco-based company is positioning itself as a fundamental reimagining of how businesses track and manage customer relationships, abandoning the manual data entry that has defined CRMs for decades in favor of a system that automatically captures, organizes, and acts on customer interactions. With more than 100 early customers already using the platform […]
- The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) hopes to take advantage of an increased demand for customized models and enterprises seeking more transparency from AI models with its latest release.Ai2 made the latest addition to its Olmo family of large language models available to organizations, continuing to focus on openness and customization. Olmo 3 has a longer context window, more reasoning traces and is better at coding than its previous iteration. This latest version, like the other Olmo releases, is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. Enterprises will have complete transparency into and control over the training data and checkpointing. Ai2 will release […]
- OpenAI has introduced GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model now available in its Codex developer environment. The release marks a significant step forward in AI-assisted software engineering, offering improved long-horizon reasoning, efficiency, and real-time interactive capabilities. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max will now replace GPT‑5.1-Codex as the default model across Codex-integrated surfaces.The new model is designed to serve as a persistent, high-context software development agent, capable of managing complex refactors, debugging workflows, and project-scale tasks across multiple context windows.It comes on the heels of Google releasing its powerful new Gemini 3 Pro model yesterday, yet still outperforms or matches it on key coding […]
- Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, on Wednesday announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and interoperability needed for large-scale AI agent ecosystems. The launch includes ASI:One, a personal-AI orchestration platform; Fetch Business, a verification and discovery portal for brand agents; and Agentverse, an open directory hosting more than two million agents. Together, the system positions Fetch as an infrastructure provider for what it calls the “Agentic Web”—a layer where consumer AIs and brand AIs collaborate to complete tasks instead of merely suggesting them.The company says […]
- A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world's most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centric videos up to five minutes long — a dramatic leap beyond the capabilities of rivals including OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.CraftStory, which launched Tuesday with $2 million in funding, is introducing Model 2.0, a video generation system that addresses one of the most significant limitations plaguing the nascent AI video industry: duration. While OpenAI's Sora 2 tops out at 25 seconds and most competing models generate clips of 10 seconds or less, […]
- VentureBeat launches “Beyond the Pilot” — a new podcast series exploring how enterprise AI gets realPremiering November 19VentureBeat is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship podcast, Beyond the Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action, premiering November 19 and brought to you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco.Enterprise AI has reached a new inflection point: workloads are going live, and the constraints are getting real. The challenge for enterprise technical leaders isn’t understanding AI’s potential — it’s navigating the messy, complex work of making it run reliably at scale. Beyond the Pilot goes inside that reality with candid conversations from executives who’ve moved past experiments and into production — scaling AI and agentic […]
- Researchers at Meta, the University of Chicago, and UC Berkeley have developed a new framework that addresses the high costs, infrastructure complexity, and unreliable feedback associated with using reinforcement learning (RL) to train large language model (LLM) agents. The framework, DreamGym, simulates an RL environment to train agents for complex applications. As it progresses through the training process, the framework dynamically adjusts task difficulty, ensuring the agent gradually learns to solve more challenging problems as it improves.Experiments by the research team show that DreamGym substantially improves RL training in both fully synthetic settings and scenarios where the model must apply […]
