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 ...

AI companies’ insistence that their technology is making breakthroughs, not just aiding scientists, is making real progress ...

Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a ...

Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology. Available only for MIT ...

Polygraph+ will use new sensor technologies and AI to vet staff and hunt leakers. Experts say AI-enabled lie detection is ...

“With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and ...

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to a ...

The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.

It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a ...

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within ...

As AI pushes semiconductors and data centers toward new physical limits, advanced materials are becoming critical to ...