MIT Technology Review

Models can now be steered to generate text based on the topic or sentiment of your choosing.

Other neural nets haven’t progressed beyond simple addition and multiplication, but this one calculates integrals and solves differential equations.

Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?

It won’t be easy to update the 47-year-old standard for predicting what fires will do—but it will save lives.

The idea is something of a technicality, but nevertheless an interesting one.

At the most prominent AI research gathering of the year, invited speakers and attendees are grappling with how to make technology that better serves the world.

At the opening keynote of a prominent AI research conference, Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.

Quantum key distribution is being touted as the future of cybersecurity, and China has gone all in.

It’s possible to limit the harm synthetic media tools might cause—but it won’t happen without effort.

It’s called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.

Dedicated researchers have the answer.

The tech giant is using privacy-preserving machine learning to improve its voice assistant while keeping your data on your phone.

Real-world tests of the system are set to begin soon, according to a local news report.

Asymmetric conductors could revolutionize cooling systems for computers and other devices.

The Trump administration is once again pushing for access to encrypted data. But some intelligence companies are selling a sneakier route around protection.

After facing complaints from scientists about its satellites ruining the night sky, SpaceX wants to experiment with a new coating to make them less bright.

Your space questions, answered.

Offshore tests by a startup seek to lengthen people’s telomeres—and their lives.

We tend to think of children as blindly trusting of whatever information comes their way. They’re not.

Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need.

The North Korean regime appears to see cryptocurrency as a shortcut to economic development.

New estimates show how much China’s investments in AI have been overblown.

SpaceX is sending a slew of weird new experiments to the space station, including one where astronauts will experiment with fire.

And greenhouse gases will continue to climb until nations collectively commit to much more aggressive action.

He Jiankui’s manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

The report describing the creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies creates an ethical quandary for scientific journals.

The unpublished research paper by He Jiankui about the creation of the babies shows proof of attempted gene editing gone awry.