Artificial Intelligence MIT Technology Review
- AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players thinkby Michelle Kim on February 27, 2026 at 10:00 am
Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. The game is an ancient one, with sacred stature in South Korea. But inside the building, rooms once filled with the soft clatter of hands dipping into…
- Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformationby MIT Technology Review Insights on February 26, 2026 at 3:00 pm
For years, Industry 4.0 transformation has centered on the convergence of intelligent technologies like AI, cloud, the internet of things, robotics, and digital twins. Industry 5.0 marks a pivotal shift from integrating emerging technologies to orchestrating them at scale. With Industry 5.0, the purpose of this interconnected web of technologies is more nuanced: to augment…
- The human work behind humanoid robots is being hiddenby James O’Donnell on February 23, 2026 at 5:05 pm
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most valuable company, proclaimed that we are entering the era of physical AI, when artificial intelligence will move beyond language and chatbots…
- Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI onlineby James O’Donnell on February 19, 2026 at 4:00 pm
AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image of a protester in Minnesota and then mocked those asking about it. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds and racks up views, like the videos that…
- Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signalingby Will Douglas Heaven on February 18, 2026 at 4:00 pm
Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to play more…
- The robots who predict the futureby Bryan Gardiner on February 18, 2026 at 11:00 am
To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that does not…
- AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.by Rhiannon Williams on February 12, 2026 at 11:00 am
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him use to analyze submissions for potential viruses and other types of malicious software, often known as malware. On the surface it seemed…
- What’s next for Chinese open-source AIby Caiwei Chen on February 12, 2026 at 10:00 am
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI. Since DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025, Chinese companies have repeatedly delivered AI…
- Is a secure AI assistant possible?by Grace Huckins on February 11, 2026 at 8:08 pm
AI agents are a risky business. Even when stuck inside the chatbox window, LLMs will make mistakes and behave badly. Once they have tools that they can use to interact with the outside world, such as web browsers and email addresses, the consequences of those mistakes become far more serious. That might explain why the…
- A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptionsby Michelle Kim on February 10, 2026 at 5:00 pm
In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abilities and its gushing, meandering replies. Then he came across a post on Reddit about…






