You don’t hear the defenders of so-called Western civilization talk much about The Odyssey these days.Maybe that’s because their rabid denunciations of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s epic were buried in an avalanche of money. The July blockbuster...
I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong about any of this. (That’s for another day.) But in a world where nobody knows what’s coming, companies like Anthropic get to fill the vacuum. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: What is...
As footage of ICE raids, deportations, and protests flooded social media feeds throughout the summer of 2025 and into the following year, Eduardo Maytorena wasn’t sure what his team should do.At the time, Maytorena was the LA station general...
We almost wish we hadn’t. The noise was brain-numbingly loud as we blasted, somewhat appropriately, Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. We couldn’t hear each other speak, and we could feel our internal organs vibrating. Any sense of fidelity disappeared,...
Even years after the discovery of the first little red dot, not much about them is settled. Dale Kocevski, an astrophysicist at Colby College, recalls leading a discussion about them at an April 2026 conference in Aspen, Colorado. He...
In the new Impossible issue of MIT Technology Review, we ran progress reports on six potentially transformative technologies and ideas that have been “just around the corner” for years, or even decades. From exercise in a pill to nuclear-powered...
I couldn’t help feeling some empathy for Holmes, a mother we see preparing to leave her two kids for a lengthy prison sentence. And even though I have long known the facts, Holmes is clearly an effective manipulator. You...
A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating genetically enhanced dogs for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders.Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and Colossal Biosciences cofounder Ben...
Increasingly, the answer depends on the serving harness—the engineering system surrounding the model, including the architecture, memory management, scheduling, and optimization decisions that determine how efficiently model intelligence becomes a production capability. For technical executives, that changes where...
About the speaker Jing Wang, Principal, Center for AI and Insights, Vanguard Jing Wang leads Vanguard's Center for AI & Insights (CAI), advancing the firm's AI, machine learning, generative AI, and behavioral science capabilities. Her team drives...
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