Technology
The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
It’s been nearly a week since the Trump administration sent an export control directive to Anthropic, forcing one of the world’s leading AI labs to pull its most advanced models offline. After days of negotiations between Anthropic and the...
Social Media
Influencer Ads: How to Run Creator Content as a Performance Channel
Influencer ads are now the single ad format buyers most want to grow. Creator and influencer ads or partnerships are the type of advertising the most buyers (57%) plan to put increased focus on in 2026, up from 48%...
Technology
Way beyond a social media ban, one town in Ireland is raising kids without smartphones
Overlooking the Irish Sea just south of Dublin, Greystones is one of Ireland's most affluent and scenic towns. Its coastal views, independent shops and tight-knit community have made it one of the most desirable places...
Technology
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it did not answer questions about how it plans to use the technology in real-world...
Technology
MIT in the media: For the future of tech, “Massachusetts can absolutely lead”
On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders...
Technology
Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI | TechCrunch
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on consumer and prosumer technology, he has built a portfolio...
Technology
IEEE’s 2026 Education Week Events Emphasized Lifelong Learning
The rapid evolution of the global engineering landscape requires continuous education. For one week in April, the IEEE community focuses on its educational frameworks. IEEE Education Week, which just concluded its fifth year, provided a comprehensive overview of the...
Technology
Beat Biased Hiring By Owning Your Story In Every Interview Room
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!I’ve sat on...
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Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it | TechCrunch
Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots...
Technology
How Liquid Cooling Let a Humanoid Robot Shatter Half Marathon Records
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On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost two hours.How did they...