The great AI hype correction of 2025
Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late…
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A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype
Each time you’ve heard a borderline outlandish idea of what AI will be capable of,…
What even is the AI bubble?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to…
AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world
The microwave-size instrument at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn’t look all that different from…
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul…
New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age
The new certificate program will equip naval officers with skills needed to solve the military’s…
New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics
By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a…
MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Postdoc Zongyi Li, Associate Professor Tess Smidt, and seven additional alumni will be supported in…
The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and…
Harnessing human-AI collaboration for an AI roadmap that moves beyond pilots
The past year has marked a turning point in the corporate AI conversation. After a…