Microsoft today held a live announcement event online for its Copilot AI digital assistant, with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI division, and other presenters unveiling a new generation of features that deepen integration across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365,...

May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives believe artificial intelligence is actively damaging their organizations — and...

As organizations weave AI into more of their operations, senior executives are realizing data engineers hold a central role in bringing these initiatives to life. After all, AI only delivers when you have large amounts of reliable and well-managed, high-quality data. Indeed, this...

In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that...

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. This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a zero-carbon fuel Found Energy, a startup in Boston, aims to harness...

The crushed-up soda can disappears in a cloud of steam and—though it’s not visible—hydrogen gas. “I can just keep this reaction going by adding more water,” says Peter Godart, squirting some into the steaming beaker. “This is room-temperature water, and it’s immediately boiling....

One of the leading architects of the current generative AI boom — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, famed for having the software giant take an early investment in OpenAI (and later saying he was “good for my $80 billion“) — published his latest annual letter yesterday on...

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption and cutting-edge research, according to Kai-Fu Lee, one of the world’s most...

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. Introducing: the body issue We’re thrilled to share the latest edition of MIT Technology Review magazine, digging into the future of the human...