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The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency's FY2027 request funds Polygraph+ over five years, pairing AI scoring with standoff sensors reading head movement, facial skin temperature, pore activity, heart rate and breathing from cameras. Congress hasn't approved it. (MIT Technology Review) Legal and deception researchers told MIT Tech Review it stacks model uncertainty on an already invalid technique and risks being used to pressure people into confessions. Building a classifier on a construct that doesn't have ground truth produces a confident number and nothing else.
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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...
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...
Published today, the piece follows Moxie, Embodied's 15-inch companion robot marketed to neurodivergent children, through the company's 2024 collapse, a 2025 investor revival, and that successor's own failure with a June 2026 shutdown deadline (MIT Technology Review). The clin...
MIT Technology Review and Rest of World report that Chinese tech companies are instructing employees to build AI agents that replicate their own job functions. A GitHub project called "Colleague Skill" from Shanghai AI Lab imports chat history and files from Lark and DingTalk,...
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...
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