March 12, 2026

Defense official reveals how AI chatbots could be used for targeting decisions

The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations about which to strike first, which would then be vetted by humans, according to a Defense official with knowledge of the matter. The disclosure about how the military may use AI chatbots comes as the Pentagon faces scrutiny over…

Nextdata is building data meshes for the enterprise

September 28, 2023
The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years. At a high level, it’s a data platform architecture that allows users to access data without transferring it to one of two places: a data lake, or a centralized repository for storing data at scale; or a data warehouse, an enterprise system […]

AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation

September 28, 2023
Market intelligence — where organizations gather information about industries, other businesses, trends, and more in order to use that data to help make business decisions — has become a huge industry in itself over the last few decades, projected to be worth nearly $84 billion in revenues this year. Now, as newer innovations like ChatGPT […]

Indian music label giant Saregama acquires Pocket Aces

September 28, 2023
Saregama has agreed to acquire a 51.82% stake in the startup Pocket Aces as the oldest Indian music label makes deeper push into videos. Saregama is paying about $20 million for the 51.82% stake in Pocket Aces and plans to invest an additional $1.8 million in the startup, the Kolkata-headquartered firm disclosed in a stock […]

KSOC says it’s tackling cloud-native security in a way that is Kubernetes-first

September 28, 2023
The take-up of Kubernetes, a tool for managing containerized workloads, is only expected to increase as demand for cloud-native architectures and containerization continues. In terms of security, this can mean a boon or a major blind spot for them, according to Kubernetes Security Operation Center (KSOC), a Bay Area startup — a boon, in that […]

Why the dream of fusion power isn’t going away

September 28, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. There’s a joke about fusion power that always comes up when people start talking about the technology. It goes like this: Fusion is the energy of the future … and it always…

ClimateTech is almost here

September 28, 2023
Nations around the globe have begun to put in place the policies, capital and technologies needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but the world still must move far faster to address the rising dangers of climate change. MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech conference will bring together leading scientists, investors, entrepreneurs and officials working to accelerate the…

Adobe launches Photoshop’s web version with Firefly-powered AI tools

September 28, 2023
Adobe officially launched Photoshop for the web on Wednesday for all users with paid plans. The web version, which was in beta for almost two years, is now available with Firefly-powered AI tools such as generative fill and generative expand. The company said that the tools in the toolbar on the web is based group […]