Emissions from air freight have increased by 25% since 2019, according to a 2024 analysis by environmental advocacy organization Stand.Earth. The researchers found that the expansion of cargo-only fleets to transport goods during the pandemic — as air travel halted, slower freight modes faced ...

AI systems feel smarter than ever. They answer quickly, confidently, and with polish. But beneath that surface, something subtle is going wrong. Outputs are getting safer. Ideas are getting narrower. Surprise is disappearing – less aweful.  This matters because AI is increasingly involved in how we ...

Every year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. In fact, the 2026 version is out today. This marks the 25th year the newsroom has compiled this annual list, which means its journalists and editors have now identified 250 technologies as breakthroughs.  A few ...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate a realistic data poisoning attack by manipulating labels in the CIFAR-10 dataset and observing its impact on model behavior. We construct a clean and a poisoned training pipeline side by side, using a ResNet-style convolutional network to ensure stable, comparable ...

What does an end to end stack for terminal agents look like when you combine structured toolkits, synthetic RL environments, and benchmark aligned evaluation? A team of researchers from CAMEL AI, Eigent AI and other collaborators have released SETA, a toolkit and environment stack that focuses on ...

Hackathons are different!. The good ones pull you in, stretch your thinking, and leave you with something real—regardless of the outcome. The problem is choice. It’s hard to find the right one! Too many hackathons. Too many formats. And too much noise. So this list is built with that in mind. ...

AI is taking over the world. If you don’t agree to this, you need to have a look at the latest technologies presented at one of the biggest annual technology events – the CES 2026. Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place in Las Vegas, US, every year, brings forward the best of technologies ...

If you’re curious about trending terms like AI Agents or Agentic AI, you’re in the right place. Agentic AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise adoption. According to Gartner, over 60% of enterprise AI applications are expected to include agentic components by 2026, while more than ...

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology almost immediately became the standard in intelligent applications. This was a result of the quickly developing field of artificial intelligence that combined large language models and external knowledge bases with different real-time access methods. ...

How far can a mid sized language model go if the real innovation moves from the backbone into the agent scaffold and tool stack? Meta and Harvard researchers have released the Confucius Code Agent, an open sourced AI software engineer built on the Confucius SDK that is designed for industrial scale ...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how we use Ibis to build a portable, in-database feature engineering pipeline that looks and feels like Pandas but executes entirely inside the database. We show how we connect to DuckDB, register data safely inside the backend, and define complex transformations ...

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. How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop —Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video ...