Your AI-Powered Customer Service Is Putting Brand Trust on the Line. Here’s How to Optimize It.
As companies rush to deploy AI chatbots for cost savings, a hidden erosion of brand trust is underway.
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…
6 Ways AI Is Redefining Product Development — and Helping Startups Build, Compete and Scale Like Never Before
The role of AI in product development — from accelerator to strategic differentiator.
A Price War Is Brewing Between OpenAI and Anthropic — And It Could Make AI a Lot Cheaper for Your Business
OpenAI is weighing drastic cuts to what it charges for AI tokens. It expects Anthropic to do the same.
The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception
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. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first…
US spy law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies
The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI’s warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly expire on Friday for the first time.
You do your own time
There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm. Eustace was holding the screwdriver she’d…
Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now
Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disease—which can cause vision loss—by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye. But…
Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it knows when the wind lifts the hairs on your skin, when your heart is…
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale
Avataar AI’s distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation
Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to
Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.