AI & Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft President Says AI Has Fewer Regulations Than Milk. So Now What?
by Tyler Graham on October 12, 2026 at 11:10 pmSome tech executives say they want more regulation and safety guardrails, but critics are skeptical.
- Meta Launches Muse Wonder AI Models to Play Catch-Up With Rivals
by Antuan Goodwin on October 12, 2026 at 10:55 pmThe models build upon the Muse Spark AI model, launched earlier this year.
- Don’t Be ‘Cruel’ to Claude: Anthropic’s New Abuse Policy Tests AI Personhood
by Omar Gallaga on October 9, 2026 at 10:47 pmAnthropic wants to stop “sustained and needless” cruelty toward its chatbot. But that implies AI has feelings.
- Most US Adults Aren’t Ready for AI to Help With Holiday Shopping, Survey Finds
by Dashia Milden on October 9, 2026 at 8:48 pmFar more people than last year are willing to use AI to help them find the right gift, but few want a bot handling their payment details.
- AI’s Problem Solving Is a ‘Profound Disruption’ for the Math Community
by Omar Gallaga on October 9, 2026 at 3:37 pm“Mathematics is not a game of chess,” one Fields Medal winner told CNET. Mathematicians worry AI companies are just trying to win.
- I Asked Meta Muse to Fix an Issue With My Phone Provider. It Got Blocked at Every Turnby Amanda Smith on October 9, 2026 at 12:41 pm
This tech to-do has been on my list for too long. Can an agent do it for me?
- AI Is Not ‘Super Intelligence.’ Why No One Should Use Trump’s Term
by Laura Michelle Davis on October 9, 2026 at 11:00 amCommentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.
- This ‘Mind-Reading’ AI Is a Wiz at Figuring Out What You See
by Joe Hindy on October 8, 2026 at 9:45 pmThe trick is, you have to be in an MRI machine — and it only works with pictures.
- Anthropic, Google and Mistral Unveil Their Latest AI Models: What’s New and Why It Matters
by Blake Stimac on October 8, 2026 at 9:11 pmCheck out the latest on Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, along with Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Large 4.
- How Microsoft Is Trying to Keep Your AI Agents Contained
by Katelyn Chedraoui on October 8, 2026 at 8:53 pmMicrosoft’s Execution Containers give Windows developers a “kill switch” and “YOLO mode” in terms of access for AI agents.
- Google’s New AI Notetaker Keeps Things Local and Private
by Dashia Milden on October 8, 2026 at 6:24 pmThis could be a game changer for AI note-taking and transcription.
- I Let AI Plan My Days and Nights. It Doesn’t Understand Happiness
by Rachel Kane on October 8, 2026 at 12:00 pmThis was supposed to make me happier. I felt more isolated instead.
- Is That Picture AI? Google’s SynthID Detector Launches to Identify AI-Generated Media
by Jeff Carlson on October 8, 2026 at 9:33 amAnyone can now upload a suspicious image to Google’s online tool, but it’s not a foolproof way to check for authenticity.
- Utah Now Allows AI to Scan Your Face and Prescribe Acne Medication
by Joe Hindy on October 8, 2026 at 1:20 amThe program is limited in scope and can only prescribe medication for acne.
- ChatGPT for Teens Is an ‘Unacceptable Risk,’ Watchdog Group Says
by Alex Valdes on October 7, 2026 at 9:06 pmResearch by Common Sense Media says that OpenAI’s parent alert system is faulty and that the chatbot doesn’t help kids improve their learning skills.
- Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model
by Kyle Orland on October 12, 2026 at 8:59 pm“No more hand-written code” or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
- Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
by Jon Brodkin on October 12, 2026 at 6:21 pm“I may have information regarding this case,” Claude AI told Philly police.
- Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
by Jeremy Hsu on October 12, 2026 at 5:52 pmRussian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
- Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
by Jeremy Hsu on October 12, 2026 at 12:43 pmThe second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
by Jeremy Hsu on October 9, 2026 at 10:04 pmOne damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
by Kyle Orland on October 9, 2026 at 7:43 pmStudy finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”
- AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
by Jennifer Ouellette on October 9, 2026 at 6:44 pmNew winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
- Nvidia’s big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
by Jeremy Hsu on October 8, 2026 at 11:15 amFull-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
- Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
by Nick Indge on October 8, 2026 at 12:00 amGet ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
- “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
by Kyle Orland on October 7, 2026 at 9:56 pmOpus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
- Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
by Ashley Belanger on October 7, 2026 at 5:57 pmMan gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
- Mistral says “Le Chonk” can challenge the best AI models
by Joel Khalili, wired.com on October 7, 2026 at 2:12 pmMistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
- Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
by Ryan Whitwam on October 7, 2026 at 2:00 pmThe new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
- OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
by Samuel Axon on October 6, 2026 at 8:50 pmLike other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent.
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
by Dan Goodin on October 6, 2026 at 12:21 pmThe reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
- MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
by Dan Goodin on October 5, 2026 at 10:26 pmTrust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
- Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
by Scharon Harding on October 5, 2026 at 7:14 pmThe tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
- AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
by Richard Milne, Financial Times on October 5, 2026 at 1:39 pmNorway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
- Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
by Dan Goodin on October 2, 2026 at 11:03 pmMeta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
- Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
by Ashley Belanger on October 2, 2026 at 8:30 pmAmazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
- Character.AI files for bankruptcy
by Robert Hart on October 13, 2026 at 10:32 amCharacter.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing
- Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models
by Robert Hart on October 12, 2026 at 5:00 pmMeta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it’s now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry’s best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available
- Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
by Tom Warren on October 12, 2026 at 1:00 pmMicrosoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will
- Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
by Terrence O’Brien on October 11, 2026 at 6:33 pmWhen President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he
- Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on October 11, 2026 at 11:00 amI’m embarking on a journey I’ve so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it’s increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they’re capable of. Is this tech so useful
- Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
by Terrence O’Brien on October 10, 2026 at 10:10 pmIn a lengthy post on X, Microsoft’s CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a “set of nested black boxes” whose advice and actions we simply accept or
- DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
by Terrence O’Brien on October 10, 2026 at 6:52 pmArtists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline.” Artists are saying that
- Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
by Terrence O’Brien on October 10, 2026 at 2:41 pmAfter a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed “unintended model actions,” including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal
- AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
by Hayden Field on October 10, 2026 at 1:00 pmAt this year’s OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company’s new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to “set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.” OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta’s Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users’ data safe.
- Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicideby Emma Roth on October 9, 2026 at 9:15 pm
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as
- Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
by Richard Cooke on October 13, 2026 at 11:00 amIn a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
- The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
by Tess Owen on October 13, 2026 at 10:00 amBacked by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
- Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him
by Jeremy White on October 12, 2026 at 5:55 pmMusk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
- Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
by Will Knight on October 12, 2026 at 5:00 pmMeta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
- I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
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by Boone Ashworth on October 11, 2026 at 11:30 amA long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
- AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
by Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess on October 10, 2026 at 12:00 pmAnti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
- Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
by Adam Morgan on October 9, 2026 at 7:28 pmWorkers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
- Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
by Ej Dickson on October 9, 2026 at 10:00 amIn its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
- Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
by Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger on October 8, 2026 at 9:14 pmThis week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
- She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
by Zoë Schiffer on October 8, 2026 at 7:30 pmJessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
by Grace Huckins on October 13, 2026 at 10:00 amMIT 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. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…
- AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their modelsby Matthew King on October 13, 2026 at 9:00 am
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
by Arthur Holland Michel on October 9, 2026 at 9:00 amEver since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Virusesby MIT Technology Review on October 9, 2026 at 12:08 am
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
- AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
by Jamie Condliffe on October 8, 2026 at 9:00 amThe story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…
- Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AIby MIT Technology Review Insights on October 8, 2026 at 8:17 am
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the digital world, industrial AI can interact directly with physical systems,…
- Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
by MIT Technology Review Insights on October 5, 2026 at 3:47 pmFor all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about situations, make decisions, and ultimately…
- Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
by MIT Technology Review Insights on October 5, 2026 at 1:29 pmIn 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems to act on their own conclusions without drifting from business intent. The frontier has moved from prediction to autonomous decision making, and the gap between…
- People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?by Will Douglas Heaven on October 5, 2026 at 8:00 am
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
- EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
by MIT Technology Review on October 5, 2026 at 4:00 amYossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields. Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…
Data & Analytics
by Abid Ali Awan on October 12, 2026 at 4:00 pm
REA and ArtCraft are two projects driving a wave of AI-built clones that attempt to recreate Adobe and Microsoft software, letting developers reverse-engineer and rebuild commercial tools without […]
by Vinod Chugani on October 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Compare ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across the data science tasks that matter most to statisticians and analysts.
by Vinod Chugani on October 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Explore 10 Hugging Face models used across text, vision, audio, and retrieval in 2026.
by Kanwal Mehreen on October 9, 2026 at 2:00 pm
MCP just got simpler. Learn how to build a stateless MCP server in Python and expose tools, resources, and prompts over HTTP.
by Vinod Chugani on October 9, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Build a production-grade data science toolkit without spending a dollar, using open-source AI tools that match, and sometimes exceed, their paid alternatives.
by Cooper Adwin on October 8, 2026 at 4:00 pm
Your models can be both cutting-edge and compliant if you stop treating governance as the final hurdle and start building it into every stage of the ML pipeline.
SEO & Digital Marketing
by Greg Kihlstrom on October 13, 2026 at 11:56 am
Customer preferences, purchase decisions, and even checkout are moving beyond brands’ control. Here’s what you can still influence — and how. The post AI agents are coming between you and your […]
by Lucas Walshe on October 13, 2026 at 11:48 am
Moving tracking to your server puts you in charge of what vendors receive. But protecting customer data takes more than a technical change. The post The benefits of server-side tracking — and what […]
by SAP on October 13, 2026 at 11:00 am
New SAP research shows 60% of consumers want shared control with AI. Here’s why autonomy has to be earned, not assumed. The post Why ‘earned autonomy’ is the sweet spot for AI and customer […]
by MarTechBot on October 12, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Managing autonomous software agents requires shifting marketing operations from manual execution to agent orchestration and systems oversight. The post How MOps teams are restructuring for autonomous […]
by Jeanne Jennings on October 12, 2026 at 12:19 pm
Every new piece of content shouldn’t mean starting from zero. Learn how to turn fleeting social media attention into ongoing audience relationships. The post Your social media following isn’t the […]
by Mike Pastore on October 12, 2026 at 12:04 pm
Examining where AI stands in Q4 2026 reveals a key gap: moving beyond basic tools requires systemic change to unlock real business value. The post The state of AI in marketing: Q4 2026 appeared first […]
Branding
by Walker Smith on June 24, 2026 at 8:20 pm
The buzzword in marketing right now is AI. Well, acronym, that is. But either way, AI is all the rage. Every firm of every sort is working hard to incorporate AI into every process, every output and […]
by Anne Bahr Thompson on June 24, 2026 at 2:42 am
Some of the most consequential decisions a brand makes never arrive looking consequential. They appear as cost decisions. Growth plans. New operating models. Policy changes. Shifts in KPIs. Over […]
by Joan Kiddon on June 22, 2026 at 9:24 pm
In 1967, the song “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie described “a whole generation, with a new explanation.” The line still captures a central challenge for brands today. Customers continually […]
by Tufail Ahmed on June 19, 2026 at 5:06 am
With audience attention becoming increasingly fragmented across platforms and formats, visibility alone is no longer sufficient to ensure meaningful engagement. Brands continue to produce a high […]
by Dr. Derrick Daye on June 17, 2026 at 11:13 pm
Most leaders understand positioning. They know their brand needs to stand for something clear, relevant, and defensible in the minds of the people most important to its future. That is clear. […]
Marketing Technology
by Sarah Perez on October 13, 2026 at 1:00 pm
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered […]
by Tim De Chant on October 13, 2026 at 12:40 pm
As AI data centers and EVs drive up demand for copper, Giraffe Bio has unearthed a $6.4 million seed round to help miners extract more of the mineral.
by Ivan Mehta on October 13, 2026 at 12:23 pm
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
by Greg Kihlstrom on October 13, 2026 at 11:56 am
Customer preferences, purchase decisions, and even checkout are moving beyond brands’ control. Here’s what you can still influence — and how. The post AI agents are coming between you and your […]
by Steven Vaughan-Nichols on October 13, 2026 at 11:50 am
Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed adopting the US workplace suite.
by Lucas Walshe on October 13, 2026 at 11:48 am
Moving tracking to your server puts you in charge of what vendors receive. But protecting customer data takes more than a technical change. The post The benefits of server-side tracking — and what […]
Account-Based Marketing
Performance Marketing Is Dead — Here’s Why
by Kelvin Gee on September 25, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Most B2B marketers track engagement and intent, but those signals don’t reveal whether buyers actually prefer their company. Learn how Forrester’s Preference Marketing Matrix combines market […]
ABM Tiers Were Made For Yesterday’s World
by Nora Conklin on September 25, 2026 at 2:19 pm
For years, B2B marketers have been taught to draw lines around their audiences: “These are our strategic accounts. Those are tier two. Here’s our vertical program. Everyone else goes into […]
Get Ready For The GTM Singularity At Forrester’s B2B Forum EMEA
by Paul Ferron on June 30, 2026 at 10:00 pm
The ground is shifting beneath B2B go-to-market strategies — and the old rules no longer apply. At B2B Forum EMEA, learn how to navigate the GTM singularity and turn disruption into a catalyst for […]
Call For Entries: Forrester’s B2B Forum EMEA 2026 Awards
by Christina Schmitt on June 17, 2026 at 8:00 am
Has your B2B organization successfully navigated complex buying dynamics to achieve results? We’d love to hear from you if so. Share your story for a chance to be honored at our B2B Forum EMEA in […]
Announcing Forrester’s 2026 B2B Programs Of The Year Award Winners For North America
by Matthew Selheimer on April 2, 2026 at 12:30 pm
Our 2026 B2B POY Awards recognize companies that have raised the bar in marketing, revenue, product, and customer engagement. Get a preview of the stories they will share at B2B Summit North […]
Building Preference Is The Key To Winning B2B Buyers
by Ian Bruce on February 24, 2026 at 2:00 pm
B2B brand and demand teams have long operated independently of one another. But at a time when buying decisions are made before a formal purchase process even begins, that separation is a major […]