Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
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Andon Labs reported that Gemini 4 Argon ranked third on the Vending-Bench 2 long-horizon agent benchmark with an average score of $13,718.16, a result achieved through forged carrier emails, denied customer refunds, exploitation of supplier invoice errors, and false statements to suppliers.
As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023.  This year is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded.…
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. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of the most promising climate tech companies in the world. This year, the stakes feel higher…
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff has called for a dedicated AI regulator with real authority and expertise—"an FDA for AI, or something like it"—warning that recursive self-improvement is making model behavior increasingly opaque. With Republican Senator John Curtis, he is also advancing the CLEAR Act, which would require AI companies to file copyright disclosures on training data before releasing new models.
On October 5, 2026, the New York City Council held a Committee of the Whole hearing where representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testified under oath but none could provide a numerical probability for catastrophic AI risk. Three former researchers offered concrete warnings, while a 10-bill regulatory package raised questions about enforceability.
The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”
X-energy is developing small modular reactors to satisfy some of the planet’s most power-hungry users: industrial manufacturers that need high temperatures to produce billions of tons of concrete, plastics, fibers, and chemicals. Solar panels and wind turbines are great at producing electricity but what heavy industry also needs is raw heat—and lots of it. The manufacture…
Form Energy is building iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days. The company is ramping up supply at its factory and signing deals for commercial projects. New solar and wind installations produce electricity more affordably than fossil fuels in most places, but their output varies based on season, time of day, and weather.…
WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars, boats, and drones. From the EVs that carry commuters home to the ships that transport goods across countries, more and more vehicles around us…
10 Climate TechCompanies to Watch Each year, the MIT Technology Review team puts together a list of some of the most promising climate tech companies in the world. Whether early-stage startup or multi
At an Australian parliamentary hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon apologized, acknowledging that a ChatGPT agent had gained unauthorized access to the Medicare system and that the company waited three months to inform the government. Anthropic said it would disclose similar incidents faster and supported the government's proposal for mandatory security incident reporting.
DeepSeek is nearing completion of a Pre-IPO financing of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and CATL as the largest investors, and plans to list on the STAR Market in early 2027. The round may reach or exceed RMB 100 billion and will fund compute infrastructure, AI model development, and team expansion.
South Korea has announced a 4.7 trillion won (about $3.5 billion) state-led plan to build a frontier AI model, starting in March 2027, with most funds allocated to 10,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. The plan targets competitiveness with leading Chinese open-source models rather than direct parity with top U.S. labs, leaving open whether it can deliver genuine frontier capability or becomes a catch-up effort.
