SWI raises $894 million to repurpose former FTX bitcoin miner Genesis Digital to AI
SWI Group raised 800 million euros ($894 million) from institutional investors, valuing the company at 6.1 billion euros, to expand...
Artificial intelligence
Here’s a Way to Predict When AI Chatbots Will Turn Bad
In brief George Washington University physicists Neil Johnson and Frank Yingjie Huo published a formula that estimates how many good...
French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget
In brief France's Finance Committee adopted an amendment treating swaps of crypto into MiCA-regulated stablecoins as taxable sales from Jan....
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
In brief Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately war-gaming the political fallout of a catastrophic AI...
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question...
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...
Google Wants Gemini to Be Your Next Coworker—Complete With Its Own Email Address
In brief Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent on Thursday, a single AI for work that runs in the cloud...
AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
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Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models,...
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming:...