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When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.

Journal sciencenews.org 17.09.2026

The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid

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. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wa

Journal technologyreview.com 16.09.2026

AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, sh

Journal technologyreview.com 15.09.2026

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

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. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the wor

Journal technologyreview.com 14.09.2026

A human set a new mathematical record. Then AI came for it

OpenAI is at the center of another controversy over machines tackling big math problems. This one’s about the twin prime conjecture.

Journal sciencenews.org 11.09.2026

Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot

To prevent the trawling and theft of human writing, font-makers are employing both old and new illusions to outsmart large language models

Journal smithsonianmag.com 11.09.2026

Could Artificial Intelligence Help With Early Diagnosis of Schizophrenia?

The tool may pick up subtle differences in the speech of people with the mental health condition better than human psychiatrists

Journal smithsonianmag.com 11.09.2026

AI may have solved one of math’s biggest puzzles, raising controversy

For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands of agents on the question.

Journal sciencenews.org 09.09.2026

“50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know”

Read an interview with Ken Liu explaining how this story was written here.* Obituary WHEEP-3 (“Dr. Weep”), probably the most renowned AI AI-critic of the last two decades, was retired by the Shallow L

Journal lithub.com 09.09.2026

Listening for schizophrenia: How AI could help with early diagnosis

The speech of people with schizophrenia sounds subtly different from their healthy counterparts. Can AI hear those differences better than human psychiatrists?

Journal knowablemagazine.org 09.09.2026

The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language

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. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketp

Journal technologyreview.com 04.09.2026

Scientists Recreated the Long-Lost Chirps of Jurassic Insects. Listen to the Simulated Soundscape of 165 Million Years Ago

With artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like insects might have made noise

Journal smithsonianmag.com 03.09.2026

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathemat

Journal quantamagazine.org 03.09.2026

In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

Journal quantamagazine.org 03.09.2026

The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system

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. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any bett

Journal technologyreview.com 02.09.2026

Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI secur

Journal technologyreview.com 31.08.2026

Your boss is watching you

Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?

Journal knowablemagazine.org 31.08.2026

Your brain on AI

Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy. Participants who eval

Journal technologyreview.com 25.08.2026

The living world is forcing scientists to rethink purpose

Alan Love studies how scientists think about life, purpose, and agency. In this full interview, he offers a wide-ranging guide to purpose in living systems, moving across biology, medicine, artificial

Journal bigthink.com 25.08.2026

The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai

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. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots took

Journal technologyreview.com 25.08.2026