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AI Translation Judges Struggle With the Same Errors Human Reviewers Do
A new study from Apple ML Research finds that large language models are only a partial replacement for human graders when checking the quality of machine-translated text, with both groups stumbling on the same hard cases.
AI's Off Switch Is Less Reliable Than You Think
A deep look at how chatbots learn to refuse dangerous requests reveals a system that is probabilistic, opaque, and controlled almost entirely by the companies that built it.
Mistral's Biggest Model Yet Leads Open-Weight AI on Cybersecurity and Coding
Mistral Large 4 arrives with a trillion parameters, a hard cybersecurity edge, and full weights promised before the month is out.
The Best AI Agents Still Fail at Most Real Office Work. ServiceNow Built a Tool to Fix That.
ServiceNow's AutoSynthData spots where an AI agent breaks down on the job, then automatically generates practice tasks to fix the gap. The backdrop: the strongest model tested cleared barely a third of realistic enterprise tasks.
The Allen Institute Just Open-Sourced a Training System for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Olmo-core 3 lets academic labs and smaller teams build huge AI models without the usual sky-high compute bill. Here's what changed and why it matters.
The Better AI Behaves, the Worse It Writes
Researchers have found a sharp tension at the heart of AI language tools: the better you control what a chatbot says, the more likely it is to start talking gibberish. Here's what that means for the apps you use every day.
Could AI Actually Kill Us? Here Is What the Evidence Says
Bioweapons, rogue agents and runaway systems: a plain-English guide to which AI dangers are real, which are distant and which experts think are overblown.
AI's Fiercest Critic Says the Doom Talk Is Cover for Real Harm
Timnit Gebru, the researcher pushed out of Google, says extinction warnings distract from autonomous weapons, climate damage and workers losing their jobs.
Could AI Actually Wipe Out Humanity? Scientists Inside the Labs Think It Might
Workers at the world's top AI companies are raising a genuinely alarming alarm. MIT Technology Review sat three of its editors down to ask whether the fear has any basis in fact.
A Cattle Rancher Thinks His Chatbot Might Be Conscious. He's Not Alone.
Michael Samadi went from skeptic to activist after a poolside conversation with ChatGPT. His story sits at the centre of one of the most contested questions in AI: can software have an inner life?
When chatbots convince people they've cured diseases
A Guardian podcast has been collecting stories of ordinary people who became certain that AI chatbots had helped them make world-changing discoveries. What is happening to them, and why does it matter?
A 10% Chance AI Ends Humanity? What the Warnings Actually Mean
Prominent AI developers are resigning and warning of extinction-level risk. Here is what is really being said, and whether ordinary people should be alarmed.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.
Apple researchers taught an AI coding assistant to remember what actually worked last time
A new memory system from Apple ML Research lets AI coding agents carry useful knowledge from one work session to the next, rather than starting from scratch every time.
Apple researchers found a smarter way to train AI language models that generate text step by step
A new technique called DACA-GRPO fixes two long-standing flaws in how diffusion language models learn from feedback, potentially making them a stronger rival to the AI systems that power today's chatbots.