Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford...
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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer...
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open...
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as...
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised...
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images A little over a...
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with...