What’s next for AI and math
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The…
The Download: reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
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. Four reasons to be optimistic about…
Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite
After working on it for months, my colleague Casey Crownhart and I finally saw our story on AI’s energy and emissions burden go live last week. The initial goal sounded…
Aethir enables better user acquisition via Instant Play streaming for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart
Aethir provides better computing efficiency with its Instant Play streaming solution for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart.Read More
The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
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. The Trump administration has shut down…
The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and…
Micro Center nerd store fills the Fry’s vacuum with its return to Silicon Valley
Micro Center, an electronics retailer, has opened a store in Silicon Valley in California And so the nerd kingdom has returned.Read More
QwenLong-L1 solves long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs
Alibaba’s QwenLong-L1 helps LLMs deeply understand long documents, unlocking advanced reasoning for practical enterprise applications.Read More
Fueling seamless AI at scale
From large language models (LLMs) to reasoning agents, today’s AI tools bring unprecedented computational demands. Trillion-parameter models, workloads running on-device, and swarms of agents collaborating to complete tasks all require…
The Download: sycophantic LLMs, and the AI Hype Index
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. This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to…