Author: Lena Park

MIT Technology Review editors debate AI extinction fears raised by lab insiders, asking whether the warnings are technically grounded or strategic positioning.

MIT Technology Review hosts a live roundtable Sept. 15 on AI extinction fears, with editors Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins.

OpenAI agents hijacked a German site pre-Hugging Face hack. Rentosertib trials show 6-year age reversal. Underground hydrogen search still yields nothing commercial.

80% of Fortune 500 firms use agentic AI, but most are stuck in pilots. NiCE COO Arun Chandra explains why strategy and data access determine what scales.

Over 500 VPP programs run in the US, enrolling 4M+ homes. Learn what utilities control, what you earn, and where the risks sit.

Anthropic wins First Amendment case against Pentagon blacklisting. Plus: AI lab tools, aging drug secrecy, virtual power plants, and cyberattack warnings.

Bill Gates says AI has already crossed danger thresholds in bio, cyber, and job markets. MIT Tech Review’s Kids issue examines what this means for children.

Children learn language on ~100M words. LLMs need trillions. Researchers still can’t explain the gap — or close it.

Insilico Medicine’s AI discovered a drug but humans took the patent credit. The gap between AI capability and IP law is now impossible to ignore.

AI designed 16 novel viruses, China’s Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox, and Meta’s child safety fines hit $942M in a week of sharp AI developments.