Learn about AI’s impact on energy consumption in this brand-new reporting series that you can’t find elsewhere. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy.

AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our ...

Hallucinations from AI in court documents are infuriating judges. Experts predict that the problem’s only going to get worse.

Tech giants are looking for more energy, but building new reactors takes time. In the AI arms race, all the major players say ...

But getting AI models (even small ones) to run reliably on people’s personal devices will require a step change in the chips ...

Here’s how MIT Technology Review waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate the individual and collective ...

It’s well documented that AI is a power-hungry technology. But there has been far less reporting on the extent of that hunger ...

Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched writing a story about a then little-known company, OpenAI.

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is much better at getting people to accept its point of view during an argument than humans are—but there’s a ...

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As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand ...