How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation
Check out my story, featuring weirdly smooth hands, addictive AI, and Ed Sheeran bad-mouthing (sorry Ed) www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/04/ 1... Niall Firth / @niallfirth : It's ...
How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed
This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Analysis: AI's energy consumption is exploding, with data centers' electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of da...
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.ch...
A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 after opposition from anti-CBDC legislators
But it May be Criminalized Eswar Prasad / Financial Times : Central banks must not be blind to the threats posed by CBDCs Twitter: James Wester / @jameswester : “Now legislators in...
A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who shares why he now thinks neural networks represent a “better form of intelligence”
“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview...
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods
and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free
Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups
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Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups
The most valuable hacking tools were once the domain of governments. Not anymore. — Organized cybercriminals with money …
An investigation details Operation Safety Net, a sprawling surveillance program in Minnesota to track protesters and journalists after George Floyd's murder
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A look at Tonga's internet blackout following the volcano blast, which initial investigations suggest destroyed the country's single undersea internet cable
a volcanic eruption broke it Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider : Tonga's volcanic eruption ruptured a giant undersea internet cable and knocked the country's internet offline João To...
Meta says a woman was groped on its Horizon Worlds platform on November 26; an internal review says she should have used its “Safe Zone” tool
Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social media platform, Horizon Worlds.
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages
some that you can trace to a body count. Great, if enraging, follow-the-money reporting here. https://twitter.com/... Ian Sherr / @iansherr : Still happening how many years after a...
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages
A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
Profile of Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook data scientist who wrote an exit memo detailing Facebook's inadequate steps to address global election misinformation
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
The UK government's efforts to build a centralized contract tracing app from scratch were plagued by poor technical execution and chaotic personnel management
The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors.