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Policy2026-09-04 · source-backed
MIT Technology Review reported on September 4 that drone wreckage on Ukrainian battlefields has become a source for a largely unregulated marketplace in flight and sensor data, sold to firms training autonomous targeting and navigation systems. There's no established provenance or export regime for this data. It's the clearest current example of a training corpus whose supply chain nobody can audit. MIT Technology Review
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This is sponsored content from MIT Tech Review Insights with Outshift by Cisco, so read the framing as vendor positioning, but the failure range is worth knowing. Vijoy Pandey's proposed fixes: shared intent via cognition state protocols (internal testing claims goal agreement...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
MIT Technology Review detailed a model trained in a loop where an attacker LLM tries to break other models while they defend, sharpening offensive tactics over many rounds. It focuses on prompt injection and OpenAI says it surfaced a novel "fake chain of thought" attack the te...
MIT Technology Review covers a Stanford/MIT effort (Anka Reuel, Shayne Longpre) analyzing 24,521 donated conversations across 52 models from 2023-2025 against vendors' own usage reports. Because Anthropic filters for work-related use, nearly half of real conversations would be...
Humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled platforms, citing national security and domestic supply chain. The price gap explains the dependency: a Unitree quadruped runs about $4,600 against roughly $278,000 for a comparable Boston Dynamics model. The rule reportedly carries many carv...
MIT Technology Review's Download covers a transmission line fight that could reshape New York's grid alongside escalating US threats against Chinese AI (MIT Tech Review). Transmission, not generation and not silicon, is increasingly what determines data center siting. AI expan...
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