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Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Week 5 of our State of AI collaboration with the @financialtimes.com - and this week we have @davidrotman.bsky.social and @richardwaters.bsky.social discussing the impact generative AI is having on the jobs market and the economy as a whole.
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The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity
This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Week 5 of our State of AI collaboration with the @financialtimes.com - and this week we have @davidrotman.bsky.social and @richardwaters.bsky.social discussing the impact generative AI is having on the jobs market and the economy as a whole.
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In this edition of The State of AI, Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity
This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In this edition of The State of AI, Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
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December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.
Nominations are now open for our 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
Nominations are now open for our global 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nominations are now open for our 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's week 4 of State of AI, our partnership with the
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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Securus can now fund this AI model with the fees inmates pay to make calls, after the company successfully lobbied for new regulations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
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December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Securus can now fund this AI model with the fees inmates pay to make calls, after the company successfully lobbied for new regulations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
It was five years ago this week that AlphaFold 2’s debut took scientists by surprise. Now that the hype has died down, what impact has AlphaFold really had? How are scientists using it? And what’s next? We talked to John Jumper (as well as a few other scientists) to find out.
What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It was five years ago this week that AlphaFold 2’s debut took scientists by surprise. Now that the hype has died down, what impact has AlphaFold really had? How are scientists using it? And what’s next? We talked to John Jumper (as well as a few other scientists) to find out.
📩 We want to hear from you! Do you have a question about something you read, or a topic that we cover? Let us know in the replies or at [email protected] and we'll answer some of your questions in our next magazine issue.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📩 We want to hear from you! Do you have a question about something you read, or a topic that we cover? Let us know in the replies or at [email protected] and we'll answer some of your questions in our next magazine issue.
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
This is how AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
Three things to know about the future of electricity
How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is how AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
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Spoke to Spanish company Multiverse Computing about how they used quantum physics-inspired methods to compress LLMs and interesting attempts to remove censorship from Chinese open-source models. www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/19/1...
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
They managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Spoke to Spanish company Multiverse Computing about how they used quantum physics-inspired methods to compress LLMs and interesting attempts to remove censorship from Chinese open-source models. www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/19/1...
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A group of quantum physicists managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
They managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A group of quantum physicists managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
It turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories
Turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
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Today we have the latest in our collaboration with the @financialtimes.com. This week, we're talking all things WAR, with @jamesodonnell.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/17/1...
The State of AI: How war will be changed forever
In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter, consider the ethical quandaries...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Today we have the latest in our collaboration with the @financialtimes.com. This week, we're talking all things WAR, with @jamesodonnell.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/17/1...
It's low but, um, never zero.
What is the chance your plane will be hit by space debris?
It's low but, um, never zero.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's low but, um, never zero.
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What is the chance your plane will be hit by space debris?
It's low but, um, never zero.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development.
These technologies could help put a stop to animal testing
Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development.
OpenAI’s new experimental LLM won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy AI models really are.
OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works
The experimental model won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy they really are.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
OpenAI’s new experimental LLM won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy AI models really are.
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it’s a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots.
Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it’s a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots.