- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
ars-technica· 09-oct
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
- A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
ars-technica· 09-oct
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
ars-technica· 09-oct
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
- Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
ars-technica· 09-oct
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
- PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
ars-technica· 09-oct
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
- Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
ars-technica· 09-oct
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
- One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
ars-technica· 10-oct
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
- What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
ars-technica· 09-oct
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
- AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
ars-technica· 09-oct
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
- NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
ars-technica· 09-oct
"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
- The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
mit-tech-review· 07-oct
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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also slow the aging process. Drugmakers Eli Lilly…
- Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
mit-tech-review· 08-oct
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the digital world, industrial AI can interact directly with physical systems,…
- Why we’re watching these climate tech companies
mit-tech-review· 08-oct
This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the MIT Technology Review team puts together. Our goal is to highlight some of the promising, interesting advances and firms we think are worth paying attention to in the world of climate and energy technology. …
- AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
mit-tech-review· 08-oct
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…
- The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams
mit-tech-review· 08-oct
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. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the same AI…
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
mit-tech-review· 09-oct
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
mit-tech-review· 09-oct
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
- Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller
mit-tech-review· 09-oct
The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to be a part of it.” Wischnewsky is now an RPIC, or “remote pilot in command,” at a company called FlyTrex. An RPIC is…
- We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs
mit-tech-review· 09-oct
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a biological age around two to three years younger than similar…
- The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects
mit-tech-review· 09-oct
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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
- An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
techcrunch· 09-oct
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
- Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
techcrunch· 10-oct
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
- Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
techcrunch· 09-oct
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
- Elon Musk intensifies attack on Ambani over Starlink India launch delay
techcrunch· 10-oct
Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.
- Long live the mechanical keyboard
techcrunch· 09-oct
Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood body.
- The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
techcrunch· 09-oct
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
- 3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream
techcrunch· 10-oct
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 in San Francisco. Over 300 startups will show what they’ve built to 10,000 tech leaders. Plus, 250+ speakers are ready to share insights across 200+ sessions. Register before doors open to save up to $100 and get a second pass at 50% off.
- Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
techcrunch· 10-oct
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model
techcrunch· 10-oct
Cloudflare will use this acquisition to improve its Workers programming model and platform.
- Petra Power looks to modernize energy for data centers and defense vehicles
techcrunch· 10-oct
The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry can’t get enough electricity.
- AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
the-verge· 10-oct
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. Yet Muse itself, a couple of months earlier, had launched as a supposedly safer alternative to predecessor OpenClaw - with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security." In an age when companies hoard customers' personal data and cyberattacks are a dime a dozen, AI labs are trying to convince user … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
the-verge· 10-oct
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal and we had already turned off live internet access for some high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations, we have now decided to expand that to include all our internal evaluations until we have confirmed that our security and monitoring measures (described in the remediation section … Read the full story at The Verge.
- K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
the-verge· 10-oct
Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single "Nobody" was the first K-pop song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2009. In 2010 Sunmi left the group to go back to school, but the siren call of a music career pulled her back in. She released her debut solo EP Full Moon in 2014. That began a run of award-winning releases for the pop star, including Song of the Year for "Gashina" at the Gaon Chart Music Awards. Despite her near-constant presence in the K-pop world as a solo … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The director of Fjord takes the ‘risky position’ of moderator
the-verge· 10-oct
Renata Reinsve (top center) and Sebastian Stan (top right) play religious Romanians living in Norway. | FLC Press Cristian Mungiu's sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They've just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjords of rural Norway. There is Mamma (Renate Reinsve), Tata (a bald and bespectacled Sebastian Stan), and their passel of children. They are an openly religious and proselytizing family. The parents, unfashionably, believe in punitive consequences to actions. They would never be accused of gentle parenting. All ought to be well, only Norway in 2026 is extravagantly suspicious of the devout - their famous tolerance reserved for the secular. Fjord starts quietly and b … Read the full story at The Verge.
- My brief romance with an AI bird feeder
the-verge· 10-oct
I miss my sweet tits. It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350 $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. "Looks like Great Tit!" read the first AI-driven alert sent to my phone. "Looks like Eurasian Blue Tit!" read another. I chuckled, still waiting for adulthood to kick in. This went on for days. Hundreds of miniature tits came to snack on expensive sunflower seeds already husked. They'd skulk about in nearby trees before flittering in to grab a single seed to be safely enjoyed in the canopy above. I took great delight in my new house guests. I admired them in crisp 4K HDR video recor … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Will Warner Bros. kill Skydance — or will David Ellison kill Warner Bros?
the-verge· 10-oct
Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance. Skydance is owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed the day Peter and I spoke. There are some grand ambitions here, but the reality is that acquiring Warner never goes well for anyone. AOL failed, AT&T failed, and Discovery failed — although it did succeed in flipping these assets to Skydance. So I wanted to ask Peter if he thinks the Ellisons and Skydance have a real shot at succeeding where so many companies before them have hit the rocks. Okay: Peter Kafka on Warner Bros. and Skydance. Here …
- The techlash has gone Hollywood
the-verge· 10-oct
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and tips for managing three kids. I need 'em all. This week, I've been reading about McMansions and data centers and sports cards and ICANN, trying to run my life on the Dell XPS Googlebook, testing a new and very purple Kindle, reinventing my whole note-taking system now that Google Docs can handle Markdown files, listening to episode … Read the full story at The Verge.
- LG’s RGB LED TV is good for certain situations, but an OLED is better
the-verge· 10-oct
The LG’s picture is bright and punchy, but its panel is very reflective. When it comes to TVs, the LG name has long been synonymous with OLEDs, continually leading Samsung and Sony as the top OLED manufacturer. But 2026 is all about RGB LED TVs. Almost every major company has released models with the new technology - including LG and its $3,600 75-inch Micro RGB evo MRGB95B that I've been testing. And while LG's RGB LED TV benefits from the brightness and color capability the technology provides, it has issues I couldn't overlook that its less expensive competitors don't. The MRGB95B comes in three sizes, with the 75-inch being the smallest. It has four HDMI 2.1 ports, supports Dolby Vision - although not Dolby … Read the full story at The Verge.
- Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
the-verge· 10-oct
Reports have been mounting that users of the Ledger crypto wallet have seen their accounts drained, and suspicion is that it's related to reseller CryptoBillis and a bit of spy hardware. Ledger has asked CryptoBillis to pause all sales of its wallets while it conducts an investigation. Photos and videos posted on X and Threads appear to show a small circuit board sandwiched under the screen. The implant allegedly intercepts anything displayed on the screen, including the seed passphrase shown during the initial setup. Using an embedded SIM card, the implant then sends that information back to the attacker, who can then siphon funds from use … Read the full story at The Verge.
- The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body
the-verge· 10-oct
I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck. The Telo MT1 (which stands for "mini truck") unquestionably turns heads because it looks so remarkably different from everything else on the market right now. It has a nearly cab-over design, meaning that front-seat passengers sit almost directly over the front axle. It looks a lot like a Japanese kei truck, with a super-short nose and four doors. People stop to stare as we sit at stoplights or roll silently past. The interior is surprisingly spacious, and while the seats are firm, they're n … Read the full story at The Verge.