On this International Women’s Day, I wondered: Is burnout different for women and men in creative roles? And more specifically,is it worsefor women? Historically, data from…

The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after ...

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. Coming soon: our 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now For years, MIT Technology Review’s newsroom has been ahead of the curve, tracking the developments in AI ...

You don’t always go for a benchmark score to see which AI model fits your needs. Even the highest ranking models sometimes seem to miss the essence of a conversation entirely. What matters then is how fluid and helpful your conversations with AI are. Taking a step in this direction, OpenAI has now ...

Whenever I am to suggest a new AI tool to someone who is just starting out, there is one name I know can bring them unprecedented value. NotebookLM, the famous AI tool by Google, is just one-too-many solutions wrapped into a neat package of an “AI research tool.” It can summarise your notes, find ...

Liquid AI has released LFM2-24B-A2B, a model optimized for local, low-latency tool dispatch, alongside LocalCowork, an open-source desktop agent application available in their Liquid4All GitHub Cookbook. The release provides a deployable architecture for running enterprise workflows entirely ...

Integrating Google Workspace APIs—such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets—into applications and data pipelines typically requires writing boilerplate code to handle REST endpoints, pagination, and OAuth 2.0 flows. Google AI team just released a CLI Tool (gws) for Google Workspace. The ...

In this tutorial, we explore how we use Daft as a high-performance, Python-native data engine to build an end-to-end analytical pipeline. We start by loading a real-world MNIST dataset, then progressively transform it using UDFs, feature engineering, aggregations, joins, and lazy execution. Also, ...

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. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library ...

Instruction-based image editing models are impressive at following prompts. But when edits involve physical interactions, they often fail to respect real-world laws. In their paper “From Statics to Dynamics: Physics-Aware Image Editing with Latent Transition Priors,” the authors ...

How can a trillion-parameter Large Language Model achieve state-of-the-art enterprise performance while simultaneously cutting its total parameter count by 33.3% and boosting pre-training efficiency by 49%? Yuan Lab AI releases Yuan3.0 Ultra, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language ...

The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing AI fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out early blazes. And now, one Canadian startup says it’s going after lightning. Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian ...