Research
Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy
Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservati…
Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography
Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles. Its powerful new capabilities come with a threat to break current crypto…
Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core. It handles text, images, audio, and video across a 1M-t…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1B-parameter vision-language model built for on-device deployment. It averages 80.7 on ScreenSpot-v2 and lifts RefCOCO grounding from 57.1 to …
The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
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. How kids feel about AI, in their own word…
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US end…
Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human video. The technical report establishes three results: a sca…
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 — a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5, not a larger base model. It ties GPT-5.6 Sol Max at 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligen…
Scientists just created female clones of male mice
Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time. A team based in Japan used a CRISPR-based approach to remove the Y chromosome from male cel…
AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation
Build a custom LLM post-training pipeline using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework. This comprehensive guide walks through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimizat…
The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young…
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking …
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router
NVIDIA's open 30B MoE targets the agent execution layer, with Switchyard routing each step to the cheapest capable model. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B…
Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded structure convincingly, yet PSN…
The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model
LTX-2.5 brings frontier video generation to local NVIDIA hardware: 6.8-second clips, native multishot, day-one ComfyUI, open weights. The post The Video Production Stack Now Fits …
How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy
I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring …
Building and Validating a Quantitative Trading Strategy with OctoBot, Walk-Forward Backtesting, Parameter Optimization, and Interactive Analysis
In this tutorial, we build a complete quantitative backtesting workflow with OctoBot and OctoBot-Script while keeping the environment isolated from Colab’s preinstalled dependenci…
The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
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. These startups are chasing the next big t…
webAI Releases TwIL-LM: A 1.7B and 3B Formal-Logic Model Family for Autoformalization on Local Hardware
webAI has released TwIL-LM, a family of formal-logic models at 1.7B and 3B parameters that translate English into first-order logic and check whether conclusions follow from premi…
Implementing a MiniMax-H3 Multimodal Video and Audio Generation Pipeline with ComfyUI APIs
In this comprehensive guide, we demonstrate how to implement a complete, programmable MiniMax-H3 multimodal generation pipeline. By leveraging ComfyUI as a headless backend, we wa…
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San…
Meta AI Releases Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open-Weights Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU
Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weights agentic model under Apache 2.0. It fits 24 GB VRAM and decodes 3.1x faster with DFlash speculation. The post Meta AI Releases Muse Glimme…
The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. AI for science needs reasoning, not just …
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
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. Way back i…