It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at ...

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype, with companies making breathless claims about hacking, mathematical breakthroughs, and the prospect of self-improving superintelligence.

Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology. Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” ...

We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.

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 US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it ...

As AI pushes semiconductors and data centers toward new physical limits, advanced materials are becoming critical to ...

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.

Now, they’ve taken things a step further by genetically modifying mice so their brains don’t fully develop in the first place ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

Without being overly alarmist, this should serve as a wake-up call for our colleagues in the ‘AI in drug discovery’ community,” the authors wrote at the time. It was a wake-up call for David Magnus, a ...