Artificial Intelligence
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§ 02 Recent
Latest arrivals
The Philosopher Shaping Claude's Character
Anthropic’s Collision Course with the Pentagon
The Hazard of Artificial Charm
The OpenAI Legal Trial: Governance, Mission Drift, and the Price of Progress
The Sandisk Surge: Beyond the GPU Hype in the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Cycle
The 75% Threshold: Google’s Shift Toward AI-Driven Software Engineering
The Efficiency Divergence: China’s Shift Toward Dense, Compact AI Models
Spotify’s Fitness Push: Building the Ultimate Daily Utility Ecosystem
The Analog Pivot: How Phishing Campaigns Are Returning to Physical Mail
§ 03 Editor's picks
- 01Artificial Intelligence · Financial Times — Technology
Tim Cook’s Departure and the Re-evaluation of Big Tech’s Growth Trajectory
The exit of a long-standing CEO at Apple serves as a structural signal for investors to reassess the long-term sustainability of the current AI-led market rally.
- 02Artificial Intelligence · Bloomberg — Technology
DeepSeek’s Aggressive Pricing Strategy and the Commoditization of Large Language Models
By slashing fees for its latest flagship model, DeepSeek is forcing a structural shift in the Chinese AI landscape, challenging the profit margins of global incumbents.
- 03Artificial Intelligence · Bloomberg — Technology
Sereact’s $110M Raise Highlights a Pivot Toward Predictive Robotics in European Industrial Tech
As German robotics software firm Sereact secures significant capital, the industry moves beyond rote automation toward systems capable of anticipating physical outcomes.
- 04Artificial Intelligence · Bloomberg — Technology
Taiwan’s Judicial Pivot: Hardening the Defense of Semiconductor Intellectual Property
A ten-year sentence for a former Tokyo Electron employee signals a shift in how Taiwan protects its semiconductor crown jewels against industrial espionage.
- 05Artificial Intelligence · OpenAI Blog
The Logistics Bottleneck: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Food Supply Chain Efficiency
Choco’s integration of AI agents into food distribution illustrates a broader shift toward autonomous operations in historically manual, low-margin industries.
§ 02 The Big Read
Analysis & context
§ 05 By topic
In focus on this desk
Mapping the AI Horizon: Ten Forces Shaping 2026
MIT Technology Review editors unveil a definitive list of the technologies and social movements currently redefining artificial intelligence in 2026.
The Thermal Logic of Waste
MIT Technology ReviewThe Accidental Integration of AI at MIT
MIT Technology ReviewNew Volumes from MIT Map the Future of Intelligence and Governance
MIT Technology Review
The Architecture of Reality: AI’s Pivot to World Models
As AI masters the digital realm, researchers are turning to "world models" to teach machines the physical intuition required to navigate the real world.
Harvesting Motion: The New Data Economy for Humanoid Robots
MIT Technology ReviewThe End of the Rule-Bound Robot
MIT Technology ReviewHyundai’s Pivot Toward Physical AI
AI News
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The Economics of Obsolescence: AI, Labor, and the Post-Work Mirage
Andrew Yang’s 2020 warnings of automation were dismissed as premature. In the ChatGPT era, the debate has shifted from whether AI will displace workers to how society will absorb the shock.
Symphony and the Standardization of Autonomous Software Engineering
By introducing an open-source specification for agent orchestration, OpenAI is attempting to move AI-assisted coding beyond simple chat interfaces and into the realm of continuous, automated workflows.
The Architecture of Delusion in the Age of AI
Washington's $36 Billion Intel Bet Is Paying Off — and Raising New Questions
A fourfold increase in the US government's stake in Intel validates the industrial policy wager, but the entanglement of state capital and chipmaking strategy is far from resolved.
Google Cloud's AI Wager: Can Custom Chips and Models Close the Gap?
Thomas Kurian frames artificial intelligence as Google's structural advantage in the cloud wars — but AWS and Azure aren't standing still.
Mythos Access Holders Push for Public-Private Cyber Defense Coordination
As a powerful new cybersecurity tool reaches deployment, the companies granted early access are sounding alarms about the infrastructure risks of going it alone.
Google's $40 Billion Anthropic Bet Rewrites the Rules of AI Capital Allocation
The largest single investment in an AI company signals that the race for foundation model dominance is now a contest of financial endurance.
The AI Arms Race Enters a New Phase as China Closes the Gap on Frontier Models
A growing chorus of voices in Washington warns that export controls alone may not be enough to maintain America's lead in artificial intelligence.
Oracle's $14 Billion Data Center Bond Sale Tests the Limits of AI-Fueled Debt Appetite
As investors demand higher yields on a massive debt offering, the deal exposes growing unease about the scale of borrowing behind the AI infrastructure boom.
Apple's Next CEO Is a Product Guy — and That Says Everything About Where It's Headed
After 15 years of operational excellence under Tim Cook, Apple's choice of hardware chief John Ternus signals a strategic pivot toward product-led AI integration.
DeepSeek's V4 Delay Signals a Forced March Toward China's Domestic Chip Stack
A state-media-linked account frames the postponement not as a setback but as a deliberate pivot — revealing how US export controls are reshaping China's AI architecture from the silicon up.
Beijing's Supply Chain Warning Signals a New Phase in the US-China Chip War
China's response to advancing US export-control legislation frames the semiconductor battle as a global stability issue, not just a bilateral dispute.