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AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge

On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the…

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

You wouldn’t let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones

Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open…

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited…

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IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids

Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of…

NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S.…

Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?

This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that…

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure…

Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption

This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well.What…

AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen…

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware

Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign…

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces…

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of…

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s…

Fridays With Bob

When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could…

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Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize

Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.