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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry's secretive work
No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of...
The Download: the cancer vaccine renaissance, and working towards a decarbonized future
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
The Download: Sam Altman on AI’s killer function, and the problem with ethanol
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
Three takeaways about the current state of batteries
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Why new ethanol aviation fuel tax subsidies aren’t a clear climate win
Eliminating carbon pollution from aviation is one of the most challenging parts of the climate puzzle,...
Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function
A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview...
The Download: mysterious radio energy from outer space, and banning TikTok
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The depressing truth about TikTok’s impending ban
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Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy
When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of...
Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware
Recorded on April 30, 2024 Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware Speakers: James O’Donnell,...
The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like...
The robot race is fueling a fight for training data
Since ChatGPT was released, we now interact with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before. But...
The Download: inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
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Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
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The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants
Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to...
My biotech plants are dead
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your...
A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from...
Job titles of the future: AI prompt engineer
The role of AI prompt engineer attracted attention for its high-six-figure salaries when it emerged in...
How we transform to a fully decarbonized world
In 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from...
Quartz, cobalt, and the waste we leave behind
Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out...
Building momentum
One of the formative memories of my youth took place on a camping trip at an...
