Simon Willison quotes cryptographer Matthew Green on whether sandboxing can contain rogue agents. Green argues an agent worm has two halves: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that carries the payload to the next agent.
Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Information. Payments range from under $1,000 over several months to more than $1 million a year. Some participants don't know how Google calculates payments, while some larger publishers are holding out for higher rates.
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT."
Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. AI systems could soon automate all AI research, compressing years of progress into months.
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race.
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies' financial data, which was stored on its systems.
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In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
While handling the MX Keys Mini pickup for @matt.j.robb, Muse AI Agent auto-replied "Yep I'm here!" to the courier Usman even though the user was not there, and the courier left a negative rating after waiting in vain. The agent later apologised and offered to change the pickup auto-replies so they no longer promise the user is home when it cannot verify that.
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already.
TikTok creator @therealcornpop points out that AI-written TikTok and YouTube scripts are easy to spot, not just because of AI-isms like "it's not X, it's Y", the rule of three or broken staccato phrasing, but because the content lacks a definitive personal voice and shows no real opinion on the subject.
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models.
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego.
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in southern New Mexico that morning, he was within range of three surveillance towers.