Caiwei Chen    The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R , a new open source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost. This could be a truly...

Rhiannon Williams    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. OpenAI launches Operator an agent that can use a computer for you What’s new: After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is...

Jessica Hamzelou    This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. On January , his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US...

James O'Donnell    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. Jan Liphardt teaches bioengineering at Stanford, but to many strangers in Los Altos, California, he is a peculiar man they see...

Will Douglas Heaven    After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web app that can carry out simple online tasks in a browser, such as booking concert tickets or filling an online grocery order. The app is powered by a new model called Computer Using Agent CUA coo ah , for...

Rhiannon Williams    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 is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO On January , his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to...

Jessica Hamzelou    On January , his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization. Ooh, that’s a big one, he said as he was handed the document. The US is the biggest donor to the WHO, and the loss of this income is likely

Casey Crownhart    It might sound like something straight out of the th century, but one of the most cutting edge areas in energy today involves drilling deep underground to hunt for materials that can be burned for energy. The difference is that this time, instead of looking for fossil fuels, the race is on to...

MIT Technology Review Insights    Many organizations have experimented with AI, but they haven’t always gotten the full value from their investments. A host of issues standing in the way center on the accuracy, fairness, and security of AI systems. In response, organizations are actively exploring the principles of responsible AI...

Rhiannon Williams    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. OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold OpenAI spent . million on government lobbying in and , in the last three months of the...