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MIT Technology ReviewValleyThe Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests 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.

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyHow “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules.

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyHere’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here .

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyRaising the quality of insights in agentic analytics In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization.

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyStop counting tokens, start counting what ships When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors.

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyThe Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads 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.

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyThe agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he…

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MIT Technology ReviewValleyThe Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops 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.

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The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo