You have no choice in reading this article—maybe Does free will exist? Neuroscientist Uri Maoz devises experiments to illuminate how—or if—the brain makes decisions.

MIT Technology Review: You Have No Choice In Reading this Article—Maybe

Does free will exist? Neuroscientist Uri Maoz devises experiments to illuminate how—or if—the brain makes decisions

www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/13/1...
#research #philosophy #neuroscience #AI #intelligence #humanity

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy #Technology:

The book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia

www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #socialmedia #data #economy #labor #creativity #privacy #security #humanity

AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead. One-off tests don’t measure AI’s true impact. We’re better off shifting to more human-centered, context-specific methods.

#AI Benchmarks Are Broken

We’re better off shifting to more human-centered, context-specific methods.

By Angela Aristidou

www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/31/1...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #technology #data #economy #labor #creativity #health #humanity

A Show of Defiance Across the Nation

A Show of Defiance Across the Nation:

In the U.S., more than 3,000 "No Kings" demonstrations were planned to protest President Trump and his policies.

By Ernesto Londoño, Sonia A. Rao

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
#justice #economy #humanrights #civilrights #equality #nokings #speech #democracy

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

Pokémon Go Is Giving Delivery #Robots an Inch-Perfect View of the World

Niantic's #AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion crowdsourced images of urban landmarks

“I’m very focused on trying to re-create the real world.”

www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...
#labor #privacy

Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

Can #AI Be Pro-Worker?

As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...?
#economy #labor #jobs #growth #health #ArtificialIntelligence #data #privacy #equality #democracy

A.I. Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It

#AI Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It

The relentless addition of #ArtificialIntelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future of the #internet and its lifeblood, digital #advertising.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...
#privacy

ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again. Patrick Darling used a music tool from ElevenLabs to perform a song with his former bandmates.

MIT Technology Review: ALS stole this musician’s voice. #AI let him sing again.

Patrick Darling used a music tool from ElevenLabs to perform a song with his former bandmates.

By Jessica Hamzelou

www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/13/1...
#ArtificialIntelligence #biotech #health

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis Even when content is revealed to be manipulated, it still shapes our beliefs. The defenders of truth are hopelessly behind.

What We’ve Been Getting Wrong About #AI’s Truth Crisis

Even when content is revealed to be manipulated, it shapes our beliefs. The defenders of truth are hopelessly behind.

By James O'Donnell

www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/02/1...
#deepfakes #misinformation #regulations #socialmedia #health

Alex Pretti’s Friends and Family Denounce ‘Sickening Lies’ About His Life

#AlexPretti was a calm presence amid hospital chaos. A mentor who taught kindness and patience to younger friends and colleagues.

Friends and Family Denounce ‘Sickening Lies’ About His Life:

Read full article at:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
#ReneeGood #justice #journalism #humanrights #love

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Martin Luther King - Where Do We Go From Here? (Conclusion) The concluding 16 minutes of King's speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 16th, 1967.

“Where Do We Go from Here?” – Dr Martin Luther King, Jr:

"We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." – Dr King, 1967

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#MLKDay2026 #mlk #humanrights

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.

MIT Technology Review's

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

includes:

Generative coding, #AI companions, mechanistic interpretability, hyperscale AI #data centers

www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #technology #biotech #climate #energy #economy #labor #humanity

Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.

Why #AI Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025

2025 was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.

By Cal Newport

www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #technology #economy #labor #humanity

Happy New Year 2026!

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

— Maya Angelou

#happynewyear2026 #connectgoals #goaloop #goalmarket #happynewyear

The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place Radiative cooling technologies scatter heat and light into space, which could cut air-conditioning demand and keep people safe in heat waves.

Paints, Coatings, and Chemicals Making the World a Cooler Place

Radiative cooling technologies scatter heat and light into space, which could cut air-conditioning demand and keep people safe in heat waves.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/26/1...
#climate #economy #health #technology #humanity

America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks CNN and CNBC have partnered with Kalshi, a prediction market, encouraging their viewers to wager on current events in real time.

America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks

CNN and CNBC have partnered with #Kalshi, encouraging their viewers to wager on current events in real time.

By Danny Funt

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
#regulations #risk #kyc #businessmodel #journalism #fourthestate #freespeech #media

The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030 Senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven talks with Tim Bradshaw, FT global tech correspondent, about what our world will look like in the next five years.

The State of #AI: A Vision of the World in 2030

MIT Tech Review Senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven talks with Tim Bradshaw, FT global tech correspondent, about what our world will look like in the next five years.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/08/1...
#equality #technology #economy #humanity

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.

The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity

“...the lack of immediate impact is just the normal lag associated with transformative new technologies.”

By David Rotman, Richard Waters

www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...
#AI #AGI #technology #economy #labor #creativity #humanity

The Right Attitude to Gratitude Being thankful is the ultimate win-win: If the person being thanked feels happy, the person doing the thanking feels happier still.

Dr. Arthur C. Brooks: The Right Attitude to Gratitude

Being thankful is the ultimate win-win: If the person being thanked feels happy, the person doing the thanking feels happier still.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
#thanksgiving #thanksgiving2025 #gratitude #research #science #goals

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

The Case That #AI Is Thinking

“Current AI research “confirms a lot of [Douglas Hofstadter’s] ideas, but it also takes away from the beauty of what humanity is,” he told me."

By James Somers

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #technology #creativity #health #humanity

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.

OpenAI’s New LLM Exposes the Secrets of How #AI Really Works

"...it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy they really are."

By Will Douglas Heaven

www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/13/1...
#research #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #technology #humanity

Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains

The Next #Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain

As #neurotech and #AI advance, do we need new #rights to protect our most intimate #data — our minds?

"...it could be an occasion to rethink the politics that got us here in the first place.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...
#humanrights #health

Why Can’t A.I. Manage My E-Mails? Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

Why Can’t #AI Manage My E-Mails?

"...a dependence on commercial LLMs also presents an obstacle: they weren’t trained on information specific to me, my job, or my professional preferences."

By Cal Newport

www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
#chatbots #ArtificialIntelligence #productivity #technology

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

MIT Technology Review: The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans [is] a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

By Will Douglas Heaven

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
#AI #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #socialmedia

OpenAI Restructures to Become a More Traditional For-Profit Company

#OpenAI Restructures to Become a More Traditional For-Profit Company

The #AI company said the nonprofit that controlled the organization would receive a $130 billion stake in the new company.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
#technology #businessmodel #antitrust #health #humanity

Opinion | Big Tech’s Predatory Platform Model Doesn’t Have to Be Our Future

#BigTech’s Predatory Platform Model Doesn’t Have to Be Our Future

“We need to return to an older and truer vision of prosperity, [where] many companies in many industries and in many regions are important sources of wealth"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
#startups #antitrust #economy #AI #health

How do AI models generate videos? With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.

How Do #AI Models Generate #Videos?

With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/12/1...
#artificialintelligence #LLMs #computerscience #intellectualproperty #artists #filmmakers #film #art

Opinion | How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?

How Afraid of the #AI Apocalypse Should We Be?

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of AI’s existential risk.

Watch Ezra Klein’s interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky at:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
#artificialintelligence #research #security #health #humanity

A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

#AI Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...
#journalism #film #documentarians #filmmakers #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #art #artists