The startup trying to turn the web into a database
“The web is a collection of data, but it’s a mess," says Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk. "There's a...
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The Download: nominate an Innovator Under 35, and AI policy
Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 young innovators who are doing pioneering work across a range of technical fields...
Nominate someone to our 2025 list of Innovators Under 35
Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 young innovators who are doing pioneering work across a range of technical fields...
How US AI policy might change under Trump
Prabhakar was a key player in passing the president’s executive order on AI in 2023, which sets rules for tech...
Moving generative AI into production
Yet, difficulty successfully deploying generative AI continues to hamper progress. Companies know that generative AI could transform their businesses—and that...
The Download: words of wisdom from the departing White House tech advisor, and controversial AI manga translation
President Biden’s administration will end within two months, and likely to depart with him is Arati Prabhakar, the top mind...
This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English
Orange distributes its translations via an app called Emaqi (a pun on “emaki,” the ancient Japanese illustrated scrolls that are...
What the departing White House chief tech advisor has to say on AI
If consumers don't have confidence that the AI tools they're interacting with are respecting their privacy, are not embedding bias...
The Download: bird flu, and waterless concrete for the moon
How worried should we be about bird flu? The past few months have seen some potentially worrisome developments in the...
The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising
Virologists have been especially worried about the virus making its way into pigs, because these animals are notorious viral incubators....
The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete
Building a home base on the moon will demand a steep supply of moon-based infrastructure: launch pads, shelter, and radiation...
The Download: uncertainty over NASA’s moon rocket, and what’s next for nuclear
2 The FTC is probing MicrosoftIt’s a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into its cloud computing, AI and security arms. (NYT $)+...
This startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation nuclear to the grid
MIT Technology Review released our list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch less than two months ago. Since then,...
What’s next for NASA’s giant moon rocket?
“I think it would be the right call,” says Abhishek Tripathi, a former mission director at SpaceX now at the...
IP Address Test
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: the secret lives of AI characters, and commercializing space
Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs,...
These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own
More humanlike behaviors emerged in a series of 30-agent simulations. Despite all the agents starting with the same personality and...
Accelerating generative AI deployment with microservices
In this exclusive webcast, we delve into the transformative potential of portable microservices for the deployment of generative AI models....
The Download: rethinking AI benchmarks, and the ethics of AI agents
Every time a new AI model is released, it’s typically touted as acing its performance against a series of benchmarks....
The way we measure progress in AI is terrible
One of the goals of the research was to define a list of criteria that make a good benchmark. “It’s...