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    These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda

    Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating...

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    Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites

    Over the past three weeks, the new US presidential administration has taken down thousands of government...

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    The Download: DOGE’s tech-enabled destruction, and Meta’s brain AI for typing

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk

    This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your...

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    From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

    In trying to make sense of the wrecking ball that is Elon Musk and President Trump’s...

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    Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

    Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text...

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    The Download: AI companion dangers, and supersonic planes

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    Reframing digital transformation through the lens of generative AI

    Enterprise adoption of generative AI technologies has undergone explosive growth in the last two years and...

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    What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

    This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in...

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    An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it

    For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on...

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    Humanlike “teeth” have been grown in mini pigs

    Lose an adult tooth, and you’re left with limited options that typically involve titanium implants or...

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    Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.

    Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week,...

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    The Download: smart glasses in 2025, and China’s AI scene

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    What’s next for smart glasses

    MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a...

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    Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek

    The meteoric rise of DeepSeek—the Chinese AI startup now challenging global giants—has stunned observers and put...

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    The Download: understanding dark matter, and AI jailbreak protection

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy

    MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help...

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    Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like...

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    Roundtables: What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI

    Recorded on February 3, 2025 What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor,...

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    Anthropic has a new way to protect large language models against jailbreaks

    AI firm Anthropic has developed a new line of defense against a common kind of attack...

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    The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    OpenAI’s new agent can compile detailed reports on practically any topic

    OpenAI has launched a new agent capable of conducting complex, multistep online research into everything from...

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    DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

    In the week since a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek became a household name, a dizzying...

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    OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free

    On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it’s rolling OpenAI’s reasoning model o1 out to its Copilot users,...

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    How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead

    When the Chinese firm DeepSeek dropped a large language model called R1 last week, it sent...

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    The Download: measuring vaccine hesitancy, and the rise of DeepSeek

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it

    This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your...

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    The Download: climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump

    This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in...

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    This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines

    A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily...

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    The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking

    Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts...

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    Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR

    Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments...

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    The Download: DeepSeek forces a reality check, and robotaxis’ future

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like...

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    The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent

    On January 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical quantum...

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    The Download: OpenAI’s agent, and what to expect from robotics

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    The US withdrawal from the WHO will hurt us all

    This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your...

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    What’s next for robots

    MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a...

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    OpenAI launches Operator—an agent that can use a computer for you

    After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web...

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    The Download: US WHO exit risks, and underground hydrogen

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO

    On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order...

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    Implementing responsible AI in the generative age

    Many organizations have experimented with AI, but they haven’t always gotten the full value from their...

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    The Download: OpenAI’s lobbying, and making ammonia below the Earth’s surface

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold

    OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months...

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    There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race

    The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.” ...

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    A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor

    Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath...

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    The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...

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    Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like...