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The Download: weight-loss drugs, and the future of offshore wind

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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. Weight-loss drugs: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 One-third of US adults have obesity, a condition that makes them more susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. However, there’s huge hope that anti-obesity drugs—including Wegovy…

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The end of anonymity online in China

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This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to...
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Happy New Year! I hope you had a good rest over the holidays and feel ready to take on 2024. But for one more time, please allow me to indulge in a…

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What’s next for offshore wind

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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a...
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. It’s a turbulent time for offshore wind power. Large groups of turbines installed along coastlines can harness the powerful, consistent winds that blow offshore. Given…

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Bringing breakthrough data intelligence to industries

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As organizations recognize the transformational opportunity presented by generative AI, they must consider how to deploy...
As organizations recognize the transformational opportunity presented by generative AI, they must consider how to deploy that technology across the enterprise in the context of their unique industry challenges, priorities, data types, applications, ecosystem partners, and governance requirements. Financial institutions, for example, need to ensure that data and AI governance has the built-in intelligence to…

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The Download: what to expect in AI in 2024

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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. AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, nobody knew what was coming. But that low-key release changed everything, and by January, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing…

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What to expect from the coming year in AI

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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like...
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Happy new year! I hope you had a relaxing break. I spent it up in the Arctic Circle skiing, going to the sauna, and playing card games with my family by…

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The Download: Introducing MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2024

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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. Introducing: MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2024 The start of a new year offers a great opportunity to reflect while also thinking about what’s to come. That is especially true for…

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Four lessons from 2023 that tell us where AI regulation is going

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This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics,...
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. In the US and elsewhere, 2023 was a blockbuster year for artificial intelligence and AI regulation, and this next year is guaranteed to bring even…

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The first gene-editing treatment: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO CRISPR Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Precision BioSciences, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN Now The first gene-editing cure has...
WHO CRISPR Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Precision BioSciences, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN Now The first gene-editing cure has arrived. Grateful patients are calling it “life changing.” It was only 11 years ago that scientists first developed the potent DNA-snipping technology called CRISPR. Now they’ve brought CRISPR out of the lab and into real medicine with a treatment…

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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI WHEN Now When OpenAI launched a free web app called ChatGPT...
WHO Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI WHEN Now When OpenAI launched a free web app called ChatGPT in November 2022, nobody knew what was coming. But that low-key release changed everything. By January, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing web app ever, offering anyone with a browser access to one of the most powerful neural networks ever…

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Heat pumps: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO Daikin, Mitsubishi, Viessmann WHEN Now We’ve entered the era of the heat pump. Heat pumps...
WHO Daikin, Mitsubishi, Viessmann WHEN Now We’ve entered the era of the heat pump. Heat pumps are appliances that can cool and heat spaces using electricity. Many buildings today are still heated with fossil fuels, specifically natural gas. Switching to electric heat pumps that run on renewable energy could help homes, offices, and even manufacturing…

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Twitter killers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO Bluesky, Discord, Mastodon, Nostr, Threads WHEN Now For the better part of 17 years, the...
WHO Bluesky, Discord, Mastodon, Nostr, Threads WHEN Now For the better part of 17 years, the roiling, rolling, fractious, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, never-ever-ending global conversation had a central home: Twitter. If you wanted to know what was happening and what people were talking about right now, it was the only game in town. But…

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Enhanced geothermal systems: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO AltaRock Energy, Fervo Energy, Utah FORGE lab WHEN 3 to 5 years Geothermal heat, an...
WHO AltaRock Energy, Fervo Energy, Utah FORGE lab WHEN 3 to 5 years Geothermal heat, an abundant and carbon-free energy source, offers an alternative to fossil fuels that doesn’t vary with the weather or time of day. However, conventional geothermal plants require specific geological conditions—in particular, permeable rocks with water sources. Because of this, geothermal…

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Weight-loss drugs: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO Eli Lilly, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Viking Therapeutics WHEN Now One-third of US adults have...
WHO Eli Lilly, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Viking Therapeutics WHEN Now One-third of US adults have obesity, a condition that makes them more susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Anti-obesity drugs—including Wegovy and Mounjaro—could help address this public health crisis. Success stories are everywhere online, from Reddit to TikTok. Novo Nordisk, the company behind…

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Chiplets: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024

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WHO Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express WHEN Now Packaging. It may sound boring,...
WHO Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express WHEN Now Packaging. It may sound boring, but it’s an essential part of building computer systems. Now companies are defining what that looks like for a new generation of machines. For decades, chipmakers have improved performance by making transistors smaller and cramming more of them…

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The Download: producing rare earth minerals, and future AI regulation

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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 race to produce rare earth materials Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. And access to rare earth elements,…

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These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough

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This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it...
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week I came across a paper that uses AI in a way that I hadn’t heard of before. Researchers developed a smartphone app that can…

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What’s next for AI regulation in 2024?

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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a...
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. In 2023, AI policy and regulation went from a niche, nerdy topic to front-page news. This is partly thanks to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which helped AI…

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The race to produce rare earth materials

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Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating...
Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. Access to rare earth elements, key ingredients in many of these technologies, will partly determine which countries will meet their goals for lowering emissions or increasing the proportion of electricity generated from non-fossil-fuel sources. But…

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Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78

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“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my...
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78, who went on to a successful Wall Street career as a managing director at Lazard Asset Management after earning a graduate degree in chemical engineering from the Institute. “I was helped…
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The art of unearthing history

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Filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri, SM ’17, uses diverse media and techniques to delve deeply into his cultural...
Filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri, SM ’17, uses diverse media and techniques to delve deeply into his cultural identity, connecting him with the colonial history of his family’s ancestral home: Goa, India. An alumnus of the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program, Sanzgiri uses a unique approach combining such things as analysis of historical texts and 3D…
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Can AI provide better customer service?

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Customer service experiences can really stick with you—a positive interaction can inspire brand loyalty, and a...
Customer service experiences can really stick with you—a positive interaction can inspire brand loyalty, and a negative one can prompt a complete boycott. But encounters with automated customer interfaces, which often rely on limited phone menus or inept chatbots, rarely generate rave reviews. So Liz Tsai ’11, SM ’13, came up with an alternative. In…
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Calculating the costs of war

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What can be done to prevent war? That’s the question that drives Neta Crawford, PhD ’92,...
What can be done to prevent war? That’s the question that drives Neta Crawford, PhD ’92, who chaired the political science department at Boston University from 2018 until 2022 and is now a professor of international relations at Oxford University. The answer, she believes, is for people to reject armed conflict as an acceptable way…
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