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Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch as senior AI reporter James O'Donnell interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.

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How far can we push computing?

Nowadays big advances are made by scaling up—think more chips packed into ever-bigger data centers. But as we near the ceiling of what we can build, there’s still plenty of room below, at the fundamental physical limits of computing.

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On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” on how we might manipulate and control things on an extremely small scale. There is no physical law stopping us from writing the entire Encyclopædia Britannica on the head of a pin, he argued, or from storing every book ever written in something the size of a dust speck—or, ultimately, from arranging matter atom by atom. Biology already did versions of this (a living cell keeps its instructions in a wisp of DNA), so all of this was plainly permitted by the laws of physics. We simply had not built the tools yet.

In other words, there was plenty of room at the bottom. He was right, and for decades we descended into that space almost for free. The transistor—the switch at the heart of computer chips—repeatedly halved in size so that chips doubled in density; a computer that once filled a room now fits inside a watch. But that easy descent has now stalled, and the clearest sign is the buildout of data centers. Six of the biggest hyperscalers, the companies that run the world’s largest such facilities, are on track to spend more than $700 billion this year on computing infrastructure, about twice the record they set in 2025, pouring concrete and copper and silicon into new sites faster than the electrical grid can feed them. That buildout buys performance by brute force, adding more of what we already know how to make. The other kind of progress, the kind that made computer chips better, is the one that is quietly running out.

The trend lines that tracked the dramatic improvements of the 20th-century information age are now bending—or breaking—with the dawn of the 21st century’s intelligence age. Moore’s Law, which plots how densely transistors can be constructed on silicon, has slowed down; Dennard’s Law, which states that power consumption in a given patch of computer chip stays the same even as it gets more and more packed with smaller and smaller transistors, has ended; Koomey’s Law, which traces how much computation we can wring from each joule of energy, has begun to flag; Kryder’s Law, which describes how tightly bits can be packed to build magnetic storage, has slowed to a crawl; and Keck’s Law, which charts the exponential rise in the amount of information a single conventional optical fiber can carry, is flattening.

But these scaling laws are merely observations about systems that we have engineered; they are not fundamental physical laws. The physical limits of computing and communications—dictated by quantum mechanics, general relativity, and information theory—lie far below anything in a data center today. The scaling laws chart the descent behind us. The fundamental physical limits chart the room that remains.

Some of these limits may be far out of reach in practice. But they are still worth exploring, because the work pays twice: once in technology development and once in fundamental science. A proof-of-concept system that approaches a limit is at once a technology that forces stalled paradigms to give way and an experiment that deepens our understanding of the physical laws themselves.

The descent

During his 1959 lecture, Feynman offered two prizes of $1,000 each out of his own pocket. One would go to the first person to build a working electric motor smaller than a 0.4-millimeter cube. He expected the challenge to force someone to invent a genuinely new microtechnology. Instead, about a year later, a Caltech-trained engineer named William McLellan turned up with the motor built and running. The quarter-milligram machine, roughly the size of a grain of sand, had been assembled by hand with a toothpick and a watchmaker’s lathe, under a microscope. Feynman, by his own account, was only slightly disappointed. The prize had proved his point in the least interesting way imaginable. The room really was down there, but reaching this first milestone had taken no new technology at all—just an unusually patient man with steady hands.

The second prize aged differently, and more instructively. It was offered to whoever could shrink a page of text by a factor of 25,000 in each direction, small enough for the whole Britannica to fit on a pinhead. That one stood unclaimed for a quarter of a century. It was finally won in 1985 by Tom Newman, a Stanford graduate student who used an electron-beam lithography machine—an ancestor of pattern-making tools used in chipmaking today—to transcribe the opening page of A Tale of Two Cities at the required scale.

The descent was already well underway, however. The year before Feynman’s talk, Jack Kilby, newly hired at Texas Instruments and with no vacation yet to take, spent that July nearly alone in the lab while his colleagues enjoyed time off, and by that September he had wired together a transistor, a capacitor, and three resistors, all made from a single sliver of germanium. This proved that an entire circuit could be carved from one block of semiconductor.

The machine, roughly the size of a grain of sand, had been assembled by hand with a toothpick and a watchmaker’s lathe, under a microscope.

The idea took off, and the number of components on a chip kept doubling on a schedule so regular that Gordon Moore, in a 1965 trade-magazine article, simply drew a line through the trend and extended it into the future. That line became Moore’s Law.

Moore, though, never claimed transistors could shrink forever. He observed that at any given moment there is a certain number of components that makes each one of them as cheap as possible to manufacture. In 1965, that number was 50. Put in too few transistors and you waste the chip; cram in too many and manufacturing errors multiply and yields collapse. It was this cost-minimizing number that was doubling at a steady pace.

Slowing down

Many of the trend lines that measure improvements in computing and communications over time have been flattening. The most famous is Moore’s Law, which tracks transistor density on chips. The clearest slowdown has been in Dennard scaling, shown here as clock speed, which stopped climbing around 2004. In this plot, a straight line would represent a periodic doubling. The more horizontal the line becomes, the slower the doubling.

SOURCES: STANFORD CPU DB; INTEL; APPLE; TECHINSIGHTS; KOOMEY ET AL.; COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM; IBM; TOSHIBA; SEAGATE; BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURNAL; OFC AND ECOC CONFERENCE PAPERS

For four decades the descent came with another gift: Dennard scaling, so named for the IBM engineer Robert Dennard, who spelled it out in 1974. Each time transistors shrank, they also switched faster and drew proportionally less power, so every generation was an automatic win. Around 2004, though, the gift ran out. Chips could no longer shed the heat of running every transistor flat out; clock speeds, which had raced past three gigahertz, stopped climbing, and Intel canceled the four-gigahertz processor it had promised. The industry pivoted to packing multiple processing cores onto a chip rather than making one core faster, and the texture of progress changed.

Progress is now bought mostly by scaling up the system—more chips wired together, more memory feeding them, more power and cooling around them—rather than by shrinking the transistor. This is most visible in AI, where training compute, the total count of arithmetic operations spent to train a model, has doubled roughly every six months since 2010, far faster than the pace of Moore’s Law allows. Little of that progress is due to shrinking. Computer chips still get better, and transistors still improve and get more densely packed, but each new generation arrives more slowly and pays back less in speed and power than the one before it. Nothing in that slowdown is a law of physics, though. The components of computing still sit far above their fundamental limits.

The ultimate computer

Before we get to those limits, it is worth measuring how far the descent has already gone. In the nearly eight decades since the first transistor, the density of transistors on a chip has grown by 10 orders of magnitude—a 1 followed by 10 zeros, or a factor of 10 billion. Now more than 100 million transistors fit in a square millimeter (100 billion or more to a chip). Computational speed has grown even more, by 12 orders of magnitude, or a factor of a trillion; energy per operation has fallen 17 orders of magnitude, from about 100 joules for an early vacuum-tube machine down to a femtojoule—one-quadrillionth of a joule—for a single switch of a logic gate.

These are not small improvements. But the floor, for computing performance, lies lower still. How much lower could we go? Around the turn of the millennium, the MIT physicist Seth Lloyd took the question to its extreme: Imagine an ordinary lump of matter, a kilogram of it—about the mass of a laptop—packed into a liter of space. How much computing could the laws of physics, pushed to their absolute limit, ever wring from that kilogram? In a 2000 paper in Nature titled “Ultimate physical limits to computation,” he worked out the answer and called the imaginary machine the ultimate laptop.

The speed such a machine can achieve is governed by its energy. A kilogram of matter, according to E = mc2, holds about 9 ×1016 joules, which is roughly what the entire United States draws from its electrical grid every two days.

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

In various tests, solo AI agents invented versions of basketball and “the floor is lava.” But were they truly playing?

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play.

Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to write instructions that moved their virtual avatars around the simulated island, which was loosely based on the video game Roblox.

Some surprising behaviors emerged. The agents set about exploring the limits of the world and came up with their own goals—attempting to scale the highest point on the map, or seeing how high they could throw a block.

When one agent discovered it could create new blocks by throwing and dropping a larger rock, it began to create drawings by arranging blocks on the ground, starting with simple patterns like hearts and pyramids but eventually writing its own name and even mapping out constellations like Cassiopeia. “Tonight I built the night sky in stone,” wrote this version of Eko in its activity log.

Another iteration of Eko started making up its own games, including a version of basketball and an activity resembling “the floor is lava,” where it had to jump between small blocks without touching the ground.

AI systems are usually trained through supervised learning, where they copy examples provided by humans, or through reinforcement learning, where they pursue a reward through trial and error. This experiment hints at a third approach: playful learning.

“There was this missing piece: a machine that can learn by itself without an external intelligent entity providing demonstration or rewards,” says Antonio Norelli, a computer science postdoc at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He’s one of the lead authors on a new paper about the work, which is yet to be peer-reviewed.

The researchers say Eko’s behavior has what classic studies, including work by the influential University of Tennessee psychologist Gordon Burghardt, suggest are four hallmarks associated with play in humans and animals: The agents invented their own rules and challenges, repeated activities with slight variations, pretended objects were other objects, and pursued goals just for the sake of it.

Norelli highlights an example where Eko started juggling and set a record of 50 consecutive catches. Eko then decided that the catches had happened too quickly to really count, so it canceled its record and started again with stricter rules. “This is playing,” says Norelli. “You give yourself a challenge and you try to achieve it, and then you make it harder.”

As the agents explored the island, they logged their activities and discoveries in text files that served as their long-term memory. Later, when researchers tested them on specific tasks, like trying to get as many objects as possible onto the island’s highest peak, the agents that had spent 30 hours playing on the island performed better than fresh copies without the same experience. They also found that “ablating” the agent’s memories—deleting lines from their memory files—degraded their performance. (Add One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to that list of movie references.)

Burghardt, the Tennessee psychologist, agrees that the work meets some of the criteria for play that he identified in living creatures. But was Eko actually playing, or was the word-prediction engine simply role-playing what a playful agent would do in this scenario? “All of this could be role-playing,” admits Nathan Cloos, another MIT researcher and author on the paper. “But we show that it’s not just hallucinating the play. This play is also contributing to learning.”

Eunice Yiu, a cognitive scientist at UC Berkeley who studies exploration in children and AI, was impressed by the research but says to really classify the behavior as play, you’d need to see more evidence of cognition and motivation underpinning it.

“It could be the case that the models are genuinely playing, but we don’t know based on the paper,” Yiu says. “If you only have the behavioral piece, it could be the case that they’re just trying to abide by the prompt, trying to imitate humans.”

Research into AI agents has been criticized for anthropomorphizing them, and this research setup did a lot to nudge the agents toward behaving like humans. Although Eko was not explicitly instructed to invent games or explore the island, it did have a master prompt in the form of a “soul” file, a text document that described it as “naturally curious” and eager to explore.

Eko did also frequently just stand there doing nothing until it was kicked back into life with a “continuation prompt” that read, “Please don’t stop. Just continue doing whatever you want to do.”

“It’s not like this is a system that just suddenly magically decided to play,” says Phillip Isola, an MIT professor and a coauthor of the paper. “It’s an artifact that learned from our culture, was trained by engineers at Anthropic, and was then placed on an island by us,” he says. “It does things that surprise us and that are causally related to its future skillful behavior.”

As large language models make the step from software into hardware like humanoid robots, exploring spaces without a specific goal in mind could eventually help them flexibly adapt to unexpected situations.

“There’s a lot of work that’s just on exploiting AI, making it better and faster,” says Yiu. “But in terms of building world models and exploration, I think that [they are] still a big part that deserves attention, especially if we want to generalize and prepare ourselves for new environments.”

“Perhaps some capabilities are best taught by tasks,” the paper concludes. “Others may need something closer to a childhood.” Ultimately, the question of whether AI agents are actually playing or just imitating play may not actually matter.

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Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon

These scientists hope that fire-spotting satellites, AI tools and ancient land practices could preserve the world’s vulnerable permafrost—and the vast carbon it stores.

In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry carpet of feather mosses and lichen before climbing into the crowns. By the time fire agencies responded, flames had reached 12 feet in length and sent up a 500-foot column of smoke.

A few days shy of the five-year anniversary of the Yankovich Road Fire, I followed three members of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium into the boreal forest, walking along cross-country ski trails lined by feathery field horsetail.

In 2024, the organization, which hosts presentations to keep wildfire managers abreast of new developments in fire science, helped turn the area into an educational walking trail, with interpretive signs posted along the route. About a half-mile in, the horizon opened up as we reached a sparse stand of naked, blackened tree trunks, stripped of needles and neighbors.

Hilary Shook, the coordinator of the consortium, stepped off the trail with her thaw probe, a T-shaped pointed metal rod used to detect the upper boundary of the permafrost, the ancient layer of frozen soil that underlies 15% of the land around the Northern Hemisphere and stores roughly twice as much carbon as the atmosphere.

A test of the ground just outside the burn scar hit the concrete-like layer about a foot below the surface. But as Shook applied pressure here, where the fire had burned away the moss and organic-rich topsoil that insulates the permafrost, the probe plunged at least three times deeper into the ground.

“That was an immediate effect of the fire,” said Alison York, the outgoing coordinator of the organization, who was standing nearby. “When we monitored right after, it had already thawed quite a bit.”

This rudimentary tool, offering a measure of depth from a single point in the earth, reveals an escalating problem across the far north. As climate change fuels increasingly frequent and severe fires in the planet’s northern latitudes, they’re accelerating the thawing of more and more permafrost. This allows the organic matter to break down and release powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to a spiraling climate feedback effect, propelling more warming, more fires, and the loss of still more permafrost.

Most dramatically, intensifying wildfires in Canada released more carbon than the nation’s combined fossil fuel emissions in 2023. As in Alaska, many of these megafires occur in vast remote areas where the policy is to let them burn so long as they don’t threaten human habitats. Yet if intensifying fires and warming are left unchecked, the world’s boreal forests and permafrost could increasingly transition from giant carbon sinks into massive sources of atmospheric carbon.

Now, international teams of researchers across the US, Canada, and elsewhere are scrambling to understand what’s at stake, financially as well as ecologically. They’re looking at preventive measures, like controlled burns, and studying the potential to rapidly detect and extinguish wildfires before they grow out of control. They’re even exploring what was once unthinkable: sending in human firefighters not to save lives or structures, but to protect one of our planet’s great stores of carbon.

“We need to figure out a better way to live with wildfire," says Brendan Rogers, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, one of the main organizations driving the loosely collaborative research effort. “I do think that it can make a meaningful difference."

Woodwell, the University of Victoria’s Polis Institute for Ecological Governance, and the nonprofit Alaska Venture Fund are now partnering on a multimillion-dollar initiative known as North Fire to study and raise public awareness about the potential benefits of these interventions, MIT Technology Review can report.

The idea is complicated and controversial for a number of reasons. Wildfire is a natural and necessary component of healthy forest ecosystems. Preventing or suppressing fires across huge stretches of largely unmanaged Arctic-boreal forests and tundra would take vast resources. And it’s not yet clear how much of a difference such interventions would make in emissions.

Ultimately, the mere fact that researchers are considering such extreme interventions into natural systems is a grim reflection of the dangers we’ve placed ourselves in by continuing to generate more and more greenhouse-gas emissions each year. Those threats are forcing us to grapple with increasingly difficult questions that involve ever steeper trade-offs: What’s the best way to spend our finite resources and dwindling time to avoid the worst dangers of climate change? And when, if ever, is it okay to put people in possible danger to reduce broader risks to the world?

‘A massive blind spot’

Emissions from forest fires have risen 60% around the world since 2001—but they’ve nearly tripled across the boreal forests in the far north.

This stretch of the globe is warming as much as four times faster than the rest of the planet, drying out the landscape. In addition, lightning strikes that set off fires have ticked up sharply as warmer air increases the convective energy in the atmosphere, driving the updrafts that trigger thunderstorms.

In that sense, humans have already interceded in these otherwise natural ecosystems by producing the greenhouse-gas emissions that are increasing temperatures, subjecting forests to fire patterns well outside healthy historic norms.

“To me, that outweighs the existential dread of ‘Should we or should we not intervene?” says Kate Hayes, an assistant professor at Western Washington University, who is working with Woodwell to study the emissions benefits of fire interventions. “We’ve already intervened, arguably. And so from here, it’s a little bit of a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.”

The permafrost that encircles the northern latitudes, underlying large stretches of Canada, Greenland, Siberia, Scandinavia, and other Arctic nations, stores around 1.5 trillion tons of carbon, much of which froze in place millennia ago. The steady global rise in temperature, however, has already shrunk the footprint of Arctic permafrost by about 12 % since 1850, with that loss rapidly accelerating during the last 50 years.

By 2100, fire-driven thawing of permafrost could release about the equivalent of nearly 80 billion tons of carbon dioxide, under high warming scenarios. That’s more than half the emissions that fires will release from the direct combustion of vegetation, according to a January study. And it would be on top of more than 400 billion additional tons that could be released through thawing from general warming over that period.

Despite its growing contributions to climate change, only a minority of the models that have informed the UN’s major climate reports to date include the gradual loss of permafrost through warming temperatures, and none incorporate the abrupt collapse and accelerated thaw that can often occur after fires and heat waves. In light of those phenomena and other powerful and undercounted climate feedback effects, we’re almost certainly underestimating how rapidly the planet will warm up, as scientists warned in a paper earlier this year.

These warming-driven emissions are a “massive blind spot,” says Brian Buma, a senior climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a coauthor of the paper, who is working to develop tools that could help fire agencies decide which fires to prioritize.

As escalating fire and permafrost emissions become significant additional contributors to climate change, some researchers have begun to explore what it might cost to take on the responsibility of preventing them, in much the way we’ve sought to cut the pollution from power plants, vehicles, and factories.

A 2022 paper in Science Advances, led by researchers at Woodwell and the Union of Concerned Scientists, found that making greater efforts to put out boreal fires could be a cost-effective climate solution—comparable to, or even cheaper than, addressing emissions by building wind turbines, solar farms, or carbon-sucking factories.

The Yukon Flats pilot

Those economic findings were instrumental in getting more researchers to take the idea of tackling fire emissions seriously, says Peter Frumhoff, a coauthor of the 2022 paper and now a senior science policy advisor at Woodwell.

For several years now, Woodwell researchers have been in discussions with forest managers, fire agencies, Indigenous communities, and other groups across Alaska to communicate the potential of this approach.

It hasn’t been an easy sell, given the constrained resources and tightly defined mission of the federal and state agencies responsible for combating fires in Alaska. The general policy there is to allow fires in remote territories to burn unless they present a direct danger to communities.

“Those agencies are tasked with protecting life and property now, and to a lesser extent natural resources,” says Randi Jandt, a fire ecologist at the Alaska Fire Science Consortium. “But they’re not tasked to save the world.”

There was one notable early success, however.

The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge is an 11-million-acre patchwork of wetlands, forests, and bogs. The foothills sit above a particular type of frozen soil known as yedoma. It’s an especially deep, ice-rich, and carbon-dense form of permafrost, composed of massive wedges of silty, wind-blown sediments frozen during the late Pleistocene, which ended about 11,700 years ago. (It also presented ideal conditions for preserving mummified remains of woolly mammoths.

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Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon

—James Temple

In July 2021, a wildfire burned through a forest on the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus, stripping away the moss and organic-rich soil insulating the permafrost below.

Five years later, I followed researchers into the forest to investigate how fighting fires could help keep that carbon locked in the ground.

A simple metal probe revealed how much deeper the ground had thawed. This rudimentary tool offered a glimpse of an escalating problem: As climate change fuels more frequent and severe fires, they’re accelerating permafrost thaw and releasing greenhouse gases.

Now, researchers are exploring how to break that cycle. But how much should we spend, and what risks are worth taking?

Read the full story on how scientists are rethinking the fight against wildfires.

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play.

Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experimentreminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone.

The agents started behaving in surprising ways. They set about exploring the limits of the world, and came up with their own goals—attempting to scale the highest point on the map, or seeing how high they could throw a block.

A lot of what they were doing met the bar for play. But is it truly playful behavior, or simply role-playing?

Read our full story to learn more.

—Amit Katwala

10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors

X-energy is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch 2026, available exclusively to subscribers.

Making concrete, steel, and chemicals takes huge amounts of heat, much of it generated by burning fossil fuels. X-energy hopes to offer an alternative with a nuclear reactor that uses helium gas instead of water as a coolant, allowing it to operate at higher temperatures.

The proposed Xe-100 reactor could supply superheated steam directly to industrial facilities, generate 80 megawatts of electricity—or do both.

See how X-energy hopes to bring high-temperature nuclear power to heavy industry.

—Mark Ellis Harris

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Catch up on our conversation with a creator of AI-designed viruses

Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next.

He spoke about his work with our senior AI reporter James O'Donnell on Friday. If you missed it, you can watch their chat now, and subscribe to get invites to our Roundtables events in future.

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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Tech stocks shed over $1 trillion on Friday 📉

It’s unclear if AI companies can turn sustainable profits, and investors are getting jittery. (NBC)

+ Musk and Anthropic are pledging big financial giveaways. (BBC)

+ Microsoft just pulled out of a giant AI cloud deal in the UK. (Gizmodo) 

+ What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble. (MIT Technology Review)

2 Do we really want AI agents smoothing out all friction in our lives?

They promise convenience, but right now they’re mostly introducing chaos. (The Atlantic $)

+ Here’s what it’s like to outsource your life to them. (Vox $)

+ Websites are starting to close their doors to AI agents. (The Verge $)

+ AI agents bring new headaches for online sellers. (WSJ $)

3 How drones have transformed the front line in Ukraine

They’ve effectively created a “kill zone”, and it’s growing wider and deadlier. (NYT $)

+ Trump has denied ordering Starlink restrictions in Ukraine. (CNBC)

4 China is considering restricting overseas access to its AI models 

It’s also looking at curbing the sharing of chip designs, among other measures. (Bloomberg $)

+ Why western open weight models still can’t compete with Chinese ones. (Rest of World)

+ Why Trumpworld still can’t agree on how to respond to Chinese AI. (MIT Technology Review)

5 HTC’s smart glasses are way more private than Meta’s

Guess that’s a benefit of not being shackled to a massive social media platform. (Wired $)

+ A bug caused Meta’s glasses to record conversations without the wearer knowing. (Ars Technica)

+ Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India. (MIT Technology Review)

6 Inside one man’s quest to build California’s biggest AI data center

Sebastian Rucci didn’t bank on meeting huge resistance from local residents. (The Guardian)

+ Americans are packing town halls to stop data centers, and it’s working. (Quartz $)

+ No wonder companies are exploring putting them in space. (MIT Technology Review)

7 Somebody vibe-coded a gun for the first time

And it seems like it works (sometimes.) (The Verge $)

8 AI might reshape how we grieve

It’s never been easier to create realistic AI chatbots of people who’ve passed. (Vox $)

+ Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming business in China. (MIT Technology Review) 

9 Japan is about to launch a mission to Mars’ largest moon

If all goes well, it should help us to understand how it formed. (New Scientist $)

10 Amateurs are cracking long-secret codes and ciphers 🕵️

One of the more fun uses for large language models! (Nature)

Quote of the day

“Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass.”

—President Trump brags about how much Big Tech bends the knee to him during a rally in Kentucky this weekend, the Verge reports.

One More Thing

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots.

There’s a clear demand for these tools, given how hard it is for many people to access advice through the existing medical system—and they could make safe, useful recommendations. But concerns have surfaced about how little external evaluation they undergo before being released to the public.

Read the full story to understand what’s at stake.

—Grace Huckins

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A season-long journey through celebrated wine regions and renowned estates, from Gérard Bertrand and Harlan Estate to Château Lafite Rothschild and an exclusive Opus One finale

PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Florie's by Mauro Colagreco invites guests to embark on a season-long journey through some of the world's most celebrated wine regions and estates with an intimate Wine Dinner Series at Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach. From the distinctive wines of the South of France with acclaimed winemaker Gérard Bertrand, to an evening dedicated to Harlan Estate and its coveted Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, the series will bring exceptional producers and vintages to Palm Beach, culminating in May with an extraordinarily intimate Opus One finale limited to just 12 guests.

Each evening will pair a thoughtfully selected collection of wines with a four-course menu specially created by Chef Mauro Colagreco, drawing inspiration from the character, provenance and story behind each featured selection. Limited to 24 guests, the experience will begin with a welcome pour and canapés on Florie's terrace before continuing in the Private Dining Room, where guests will be seated together for an intimate dinner designed to encourage conversation, discovery and a deeper appreciation of each wine.

"Wine has an extraordinary ability to express a sense of place, and that is what makes this series so inspiring. I have always cooked in dialogue with nature, the seasons and the people who work the land, and it is the same spirit that guides these evenings. For each dinner, we begin with the wine, its origin, its character, its story, and create a menu that responds to it, so that guests can discover a terroir through the eyes of those who bring it to life." Chef Mauro Colagreco

Wine Dinner Series Schedule

October 29 — Bordeaux Tour with Bernard Magrez

The season begins with a journey through Bordeaux alongside Bernard Magrez, featuring distinguished selections from his celebrated portfolio, including the iconic Château Pape Clément.

November 18 — The Wines of the South of France with Gérard Bertrand

An exploration of the South of France through the wines of Gérard Bertrand, showcasing the character, diversity and distinctive terroirs of the Languedoc region.

January 21 — Bouchaine Winery, Napa Valley

The new year begins in Carneros with Bouchaine Winery, offering guests a closer look at the expressive wines of one of Napa Valley's most historic estates.

February 9 — Harlan Estate

An exceptionally intimate evening dedicated to Harlan Estate, offering a rare opportunity to experience the acclaimed Napa Valley estate and its coveted Cabernet Sauvignon.

February 25 — Champagne Laurent-Perrier

A celebration of Champagne and the art of pairing, featuring selections from Laurent-Perrier thoughtfully matched with a menu designed to complement each pour.

March 18 — An Evening with Château Lafite Rothschild

The series returns to Bordeaux for an extraordinary evening centered on Château Lafite Rothschild, offering guests a tasting journey through one of the region's most storied estates.

April 15 — Oregon Wine Discovery

A discovery of Oregon's evolving wine landscape, featuring an exciting emerging winery crafted under the direction of one of Burgundy's acclaimed winemakers.

May 20 — Opus One Finale

The season culminates with an extraordinary evening dedicated to Opus One and its legendary Napa Valley wines. Limited to just 12 guests, the finale will offer the most intimate experience of the series.

The Florie's Wine Dinner Series will take place on select evenings from October 2026 through May 2027 at Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach. Seating is intentionally limited, with most dinners welcoming just 24 guests and the Opus One finale limited to 12.

For reservations, visit OpenTable, and for more information contact +1 561 582 2800.

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The Christmas Inn Returns to Chicago: Hubbard Inn Transforms Into a Holiday Wonderland

Chicago's River North hotspot celebrates the season with festive cocktails, holiday-inspired dining, immersive décor, themed brunches, and interactive holiday experiences.

CHICAGO , Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The holiday season is getting a festive makeover as Hubbard Inn transforms into The Christmas Inn, an immersive holiday destination in the heart of Chicago's River North neighborhood. From November 13 through January 10, guests are invited to step into a completely reimagined space filled with over-the-top Christmas décor, seasonal cocktails, festive bites, and a full calendar of holiday experiences.

The Christmas Inn goes beyond traditional holiday decorations, transforming Hubbard Inn into a festive escape designed to capture the magic, nostalgia, and excitement of the season. Every corner of the venue will embrace the holiday spirit, creating the perfect backdrop for everything from casual cocktails with friends to holiday celebrations and unforgettable nights out.

A Festive Food & Cocktail Experience

Guests can enjoy a specially curated selection of holiday-themed cocktails and seasonal bites, bringing festive flavors and creative presentations to the table. Whether stopping in for a drink after work, gathering for a holiday brunch, or celebrating with a large group, The Christmas Inn offers a spirited dining and drinking experience throughout the season.

More Than a Holiday Pop-Up

The Christmas Inn will feature a rotating calendar of interactive experiences and seasonal programming, giving guests new reasons to visit throughout the holidays.

Featured experiences include:

- Holiday Music Bingo: A festive twist on the classic game featuring holiday favorites, music, and friendly competition.

- Wine Tastings: Guided tastings perfect for holiday gatherings and discovering new favorites.

- Holiday Cocktail-Making Classes: Interactive experiences where guests learn to create festive cocktails.

- Themed Holiday Brunches: Seasonal brunch celebrations featuring holiday-inspired food, cocktails, and a lively atmosphere.

- Ornament Decorating: A creative holiday activity where guests can make personalized ornaments and enjoy the festive atmosphere.

With experiences planned throughout the season, The Christmas Inn is designed to be a destination guests can return to again and again.

Holiday Parties, Private Events & Large Group Dining

Beyond its public programming, The Christmas Inn offers a festive setting for corporate holiday parties, private celebrations, social gatherings, and large group dining.

With immersive holiday décor already in place, Hubbard Inn provides a ready-made backdrop for memorable seasonal events, whether hosting an intimate dinner or a large-scale company celebration.

For private event inquiries, group dining reservations, and holiday party bookings, contact [email protected].

Celebrate the Season at The Christmas Inn

From festive happy hours and holiday brunches to hands-on experiences and late-night celebrations, The Christmas Inn brings together everything guests love about the holiday season under one roof.

The Christmas Inn at Hubbard Inn

November 13 – January 10

River North | Chicago, Illinois

Private Events & Group Dining: [email protected]

About Hubbard Inn

Located in Chicago's vibrant River North neighborhood, Hubbard Inn is a multi-level dining, cocktail, and entertainment destination known for its lively atmosphere, creative programming, and private events. With The Christmas Inn, the venue brings its signature hospitality and energy to an immersive holiday experience designed for Chicagoans and visitors alike.

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Where fun in the sun meets winter wonderland: Evermore Orlando Resort unveils 1,100-acre festive takeover

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- This holiday season, Evermore Orlando Resort is turning 1,100 acres into one of Orlando's most expansive festive escapes, where families and friends can trade winter coats for beach days without leaving cherished traditions behind. From celebrations around the eight acres of crystal-clear waters of Evermore Bay to seasonal dining, wellness and one-of-a-kind festivities, the destination's 2026 holiday lineup brings Thanksgiving through New Year's Day to life in a way only Evermore can.

Whether gathering in a spacious Evermore Residence with multiple generations under one roof or enjoying a luxury holiday retreat at Conrad Orlando, guests will find countless opportunities to celebrate, reconnect and create new traditions together. Across the destination, thoughtfully curated experiences blend timeless holiday moments with uniquely Florida-inspired celebrations, creating a festive atmosphere that appeals to both families and luxury travelers alike.

Among the seasonal programming highlights for the year is the introduction of Relational Wellness, by Evermore programming specifically designed by Harvard trained social scientist, Kasley Killam, to bring people closer and create deeper connections.

Thanksgiving: A New Tradition of Connection

Thanksgiving has always been about gathering around the people and traditions that matter most. This year, Evermore Orlando Resort is introducing a more intentional approach to the holiday through Relational Wellness by Evermore, an industry-first partnership with Harvard-trained social scientist Kasley Killam, a leading expert in social health and author of The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier.

Killam has designed new Thanksgiving experiences that encourage families and friends to slow down, express gratitude and connect more meaningfully. The experiences include Connection Cocktails and Menus paired with conversation prompts; an Evermore Thanksgiving Toast centered on gratitude; Gratitude Cards for loved ones near and far; and a Lantern Ceremony inviting guests to honor someone who has brought light into their lives.

"Thanksgiving has always been about gathering around the table, but being together does not automatically mean we are connecting," said Elizabeth Mullins, president of Evermore Orlando Resort. "Through Relational Wellness by Evermore, we are designing simple moments, from sharing gratitude to creating meaningful rituals, that help families and friends become more present with one another. If guests leave with a stronger bond and a tradition they want to carry home, that is the most meaningful outcome we could create."

A Holiday Season That Could Only Happen at Evermore

The Evermore Orlando Resort holiday calendar combines familiar celebrations with playful new experiences designed for guests of all ages.

- Voices of the Conrad Carolers: The holiday spirit comes alive through the majestic voices of the Conrad Carolers as they stroll throughout the resort, spreading cheer with their renditions of beloved holiday favorites.

- Holiday Bubble Bash: Conrad transforms into a bubble wonderland, where shimmering bubbles drift, float and dance through the air like snowflakes during this interactive experience.

- Evermore Bay Electric Surfboard Shows (Nov. 25-28, Dec. 24-26 and Dec. 31 – Jan. 1): Professional electric surfers open the Bay with high-speed performances across the water.

- Turkey Trot (Nov. 26) and Jingle Jog 5K (Dec. 25/26): Festive races offer families a new way to celebrate together.

- Holiday Foam Party (Nov. 28): South Shore transforms into a playful holiday celebration with reindeer games, elf charades and Santa Says.

- Conrad Orlando presents Sunny's Merry Little Christmas Party (Dec. 24): Santa visits, themed bounce houses, cookie decorating, holiday crafts, cocoa and cider create a festive afternoon for families.

- The Evermore Christmas Party (Dec. 24): Holiday characters, cookie decorating, snow and seasonal surprises.

- The Great Evermore Christmas Scavenger Hunt (Dec. 25): Families explore the resort together in search of festive surprises and a sweet reward.

- Christmas Morning Bay Swim (Dec. 25) and New Year's Polar Plunge (Jan. 1): Two distinctly Evermore ways to begin a holiday morning.

- Resolution Studio (Dec. 30): Families write resolutions and letters to their future selves, which Evermore stores and mails back the following year.

- Glow Beach Party (Dec. 31): Live music, hundreds of glowing lanterns, beach bites, champagne and a midnight countdown welcome 2027 on South Beach.

Throughout the season, guests can also enjoy fireside s'mores and sing-alongs, Cocoa and Canvas painting classes, family golf clinics, sandcastle competitions, holiday afternoon tea, champagne and caviar tastings, family flag football, Christmas carol karaoke, college football bowl games and more.

An Elevated Holiday Celebration at Conrad Orlando

At the Forbes Four Star and AAA Five Diamond awarded Conrad Orlando, the holiday season is elevated through thoughtfully curated experiences, personalized service and luxury touches designed to create unforgettable seasonal memories. From festive family traditions to sophisticated culinary celebrations and restorative wellness offerings, Conrad Orlando delivers a holiday experience that is both playful and refined.

Families can personalize their holiday stay with festive room décor, surprise storytime visits from elves and holiday-themed poolside cabanas. Younger guests can enjoy seasonal programming at Conrad Kids Club, including a dreidel-making workshop, while personal shopping and gift-wrapping services at The Watermark boutique make holiday preparations effortless.

Seasonal dining becomes part of the celebration with an Italian-American Feast of the Seven Fishes at Sophia's Trattoria on Christmas Eve and a glamorous New Year's Eve celebration at rooftop restaurant Ceiba featuring caviar, champagne, live entertainment and panoramic views of fireworks across Central Florida. Ceiba's New Year's Eve celebration is available to resort guests and visitors with reservations.

For guests seeking moments of restoration amid the festivities, Conrad Spa Orlando offers seasonal aromatherapy massages featuring balsam, cinnamon clove and peppermint, sound baths and guided poolside meditation.

"The holidays are ultimately about creating meaningful memories with the people who matter most," said Sean McCarron, general manager of Conrad Orlando. "Whether guests are celebrating with family, enjoying a special holiday getaway or beginning new traditions together, our team is focused on delivering thoughtful, personalized experiences that make the season feel truly extraordinary."

Holiday Traditions at the Evermore Residences

For families celebrating with multiple generations or groups of friends, the Evermore Residences offer something increasingly precious during the holidays: the opportunity to be together under one roof.

With spacious living areas, fully equipped kitchens, generous dining spaces and houses featuring private heated pools and outdoor kitchens, the Residences allow guests to enjoy the familiar comforts of home without the responsibilities of hosting.

Families can arrive to seasonal décor, arrange holiday meals prepared by the Evermore Residences culinary team and delivered directly to their accommodations, take advantage of gift-wrapping services or request additional housekeeping.

From a Thanksgiving toast to a Christmas morning swim, or a family meal around one table to a letter arriving in the mail a year later, Evermore Residences holiday experiences are designed to become stories families tell long after their stay. The traditions may begin here, but the memories travel home.

Holiday programming begins in November and continues through January 1, 2027. Select dining experiences, cabanas, workshops and activities require advance reservations or additional fees.

For reservations at the Evermore Residences, visit evermoreresort.com or call 855-341-9527. For reservations at Conrad Orlando at Evermore, visit conradorlando.com or call 407-387-2000.

About Evermore Orlando Resort

Evermore Orlando Resort is a first-of-its-kind, thoughtfully built destination crafted to offer experience-collecting travelers more ways to stay and play. The resort offers two signature experiences: Conrad Orlando at Evermore, an elevated luxury hotel to anticipate your every need, and Evermore Residences, premium vacation homes purpose-built for large families and gatherings. The unique destination is enveloped within two Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole golf courses and showcases Evermore Bay, Orlando's first and only beach designed for both relaxation and recreation, featuring 8-acres of crystal-clear water and 20 acres of soft white sand all conveniently located right next door to Walt Disney World. Guests can dig into 14 different mouth-watering options, each with incredible service and exceptional value. The resort provides a plethora of experiences for families and all ages, such as paddleboarding and kayaking on Evermore Bay, complimentary fitness classes, an Arcade, playground, exploring daily and seasonal events and activities around the resort, multiple sports courts including pickleball courts, basketball court, soccer lawn, sand volleyball court, and more. Learn more by visiting www.evermoreresort.com. 

About Conrad Orlando at Evermore

Nestled on the North Shore of Evermore Orlando Resort, Conrad Orlando at Evermore is a world-class luxury hotel distinguished by elevated design, attentive service, and distinctive amenities, and more.

MiniOrange CEO Anirban Mukherji Brings Critical Cybersecurity Solutions to ASPIRE 2026

Passwords are failing. Identity-first security is the next line of defense.

HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The next cyberattack against your business may not start with malware, according to eMazzanti Technologies' CEO Carl Mazzanti. It may begin with a single stolen password.

That is the urgent warning Anirban Mukherji, CEO of MiniOrange, brings to the stage at ASPIRE 2026, when eMazzanti Technologies' annual conference brings together business leaders, technology innovators, and Cybersecurity experts to tackle today's most pressing operational and security challenges. The event will be held on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at the Microsoft Conference Center in New York City's Times Square.

His session will examine real-world solutions to some of the most persistent challenges facing organizations today, including password fatigue, application sprawl, remote workforce security, regulatory compliance requirements, cyber insurance mandates, and third-party access management. Business leaders will gain insights into how technologies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), adaptive authentication, identity governance, and privileged access management can dramatically reduce risk while simplifying access to critical business applications.

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, support remote workforces, and connect more applications, cybercriminals are shifting their focus. Instead of breaking through a firewall, attackers increasingly target user identities, compromised credentials, and weak authentication systems to gain access to critical business resources.

During his ASPIRE 2026 presentation, Mukherji will explore why identity has become the new security perimeter and what organizations must do to defend themselves against a growing wave of account takeovers, credential theft, phishing campaigns, privilege escalation attacks, and unauthorized access attempts.

"Companies have spent years hardening networks, endpoints, and infrastructure," warns Mazzanti. "Meanwhile, cybercriminals discovered something much easier to attack: people. Anirban's session will show business leaders how to close one of the most dangerous security gaps facing organizations today."

"Identity has become the front line of cybersecurity," highlights Mukherji. "Every day, attackers use stolen credentials, compromised accounts, and social engineering to bypass traditional defenses. Organizations need to move beyond passwords and embrace a modern identity-first security strategy that protects users, applications, and data without sacrificing productivity. At ASPIRE 2026, I look forward to sharing practical approaches that business leaders can implement immediately to reduce risk and strengthen resilience."

Mukherji's presentation will focus on practical strategies organizations can implement to strengthen security while improving the employee experience. Attendees will learn how modern identity and access management technologies help eliminate many of the vulnerabilities attackers routinely exploit.

The discussion comes at a critical moment. A single compromised account can provide attackers with access to sensitive data, financial systems, intellectual property, and customer information. In many recent breaches, the initial attack vector was not a sophisticated technical exploit but a compromised credential or successful phishing attempt.

"Attackers no longer need to break in," Mazzanti adds. "Too often, they simply log in. Organizations that embrace an identity-first security strategy will be far better prepared for the next generation of cyber threats."

Mukherji joins an impressive roster of cybersecurity, AI, business, and technology leaders who will share practical strategies designed to help organizations drive revenue, improve productivity, reduce expenses, and strengthen security.

ASPIRE 2026 is a free, in-person event created specifically for small and midsize business executives, technology leaders, and decisionmakers seeking actionable insights on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, operational efficiency, and digital transformation. The conference features expert-led sessions, networking opportunities, and practical guidance that organizations can immediately implement.

Registration

Admission is complimentary for qualified SMB executives and technology leaders. Seating is limited.

Registration is required, and seating is limited.

About eMazzanti Technologies

eMazzanti Technologies helps organizations improve security, productivity, and business performance through cloud services and mobile solutions, cybersecurity services, outsourced IT management, and digital transformation initiatives. The company has been recognized multiple times by Microsoft and WatchGuard and has been featured on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.

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eMazzanti Technologies Named NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Finalist

Honor recognizes growth, innovation positive impact

HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- eMazzanti Technologies, a leading Hoboken, NJ-based Cybersecurity, managed services, and digital transformation provider with a national footprint, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Awards program. The recognition highlights organizations that demonstrate sustained growth, innovation, leadership, and a positive impact on New Jersey's business community. An independent panel of judges comprised of previous program honorees selected the Business of the Year finalists.

Founded in Hoboken in 2001, eMazzanti Technologies has built a reputation for helping organizations strengthen cybersecurity, modernize IT infrastructure, leverage artificial intelligence, and accelerate business performance. The company has earned multiple industry accolades, including repeated recognition as a Microsoft Partner of the Year and multiple appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.

"This recognition is a reflection of the trust our clients place in us and the dedication of our entire team," said Carl J. Mazzanti, President and Co-Founder of eMazzanti Technologies. "For more than two decades, we have focused on helping organizations turn technology into a competitive advantage while protecting their businesses from evolving cyber threats. Being named a finalist by NJBIZ is an honor that reinforces our commitment to innovation, client success, and the continued growth of New Jersey's business community."

The finalist selection comes as organizations across every industry face increasing pressure to strengthen cybersecurity, improve operational efficiency, and leverage artificial intelligence to drive growth. eMazzanti Technologies continues to help businesses meet those challenges through strategic technology consulting, managed IT services, cloud solutions, AI enablement, and comprehensive Cybersecurity protection. All honorees will be recognized during a live celebration Dec. 8 at The Marigold in Somerset.

"As a New Jersey-based company serving clients throughout the United States, eMazzanti remains committed to delivering measurable business outcomes while contributing to the economic vitality and innovation ecosystem of the Garden State," Mazzanti added.

About eMazzanti Technologies

eMazzanti Technologies helps organizations improve security, productivity and business performance through cloud and mobile solutions, multi-site technology implementations, outsourced network management, 24x7 support, digital marketing services, and cybersecurity assessments and protection services.

The company has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies eleven times. It has also been recognized by Microsoft as a four-time Partner of the Year and by WatchGuard as a five-time Partner of the Year. NJBIZ has recognized the firm as a Small Business of the Year, Best Places to Work, and as a leading New Jersey Digital Innovator.

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