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People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?

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…

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EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything

Yossi 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  Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…

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7 Massive Games Left in 2026 as Rivals Dodge GTA 6 [2026]

Four months remain in 2026, and the year’s release calendar is nowhere near finished. On September 30, 2026, Top Gear (syndicated the same week on Top Gear Philippines) published a roundup titled “Here are seven huge videogames still to come in 2026,” written by Phil Iwaniuk, arguing that the year’s headline event isn’t the only…

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NVIDIA PAIR Links Idle PCs for 1.9x Faster Local AI [2026]

NVIDIA wants the gaming PC sitting idle in your bedroom to start pulling double duty as an AI server. At IFA 2026 in Berlin on September 3, 2026, the company unveiled Personal AI Router, known as PAIR, a free and open-source tool that quietly scans a home network, finds machines with spare compute, and routes…

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Meta Muse Spark Cracks 6 Math Problems, Ships ESP32 [2026]

Meta said on October 2, 2026, that its Muse Spark AI models helped mathematicians crack six research-level problems spanning probability, differential equations, group theory, optimization, arithmetic physics, and non-associative algebra. Five of the six papers answer questions that had been open in their respective fields, according to Meta’s research blog. The company paired the math…

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Korea Orders Bank Security Checks After 4 Breaches [2026]

South Korea’s financial regulator ordered every bank, card issuer, and savings institution in the country to inspect their externally exposed IT systems after a fast-moving wave of data breaches hit at least four major lenders in four days. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) issued the sector-wide directive on October 2, 2026, following disclosures from Shinhan…

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GLM-5.3-Flash Setup: API vs Self-Host in 13 Steps [2026]

Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, 2026, and the model has spent the following five weeks quietly becoming one of the cheapest capable coding and agentic models on the market. It is a 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system that only activates 18 billion parameters per token, ships under the MIT license, and reads a 1,048,576-token context window.…

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