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The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index

The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI...

Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?

Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a...

The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an...

The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week

The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has...

Openpilot - La NHTSA passe les boîtiers de Comma au crible

Openpilot - La NHTSA passe les boîtiers de Comma au crible

La NHTSA, l'agence américaine chargée de la sécurité routière, a ouvert le 21 septembre dernier une enquête préliminaire sur les boîtiers Comma et sur openpilot, le logiciel open source qui tourne dessus. En cause, 5 accidents signalés où la voiture a percuté un véhicule arrêté ou roulant lentement...

A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border.  The announcement comes just days after publication of an MIT Technology Review investigation, “Dying on...

The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content...

Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India

Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India

Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this spring against a bill that would have narrowed the legal recognition for transgender people in...

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented hundreds of people...

The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”

The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in...

She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.  It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sending voice messages to her mother and sister as she...