Here’s our forecast for AI this year
There are a couple other things I’ll be watching closely in 2025. One is how little the major AI players—namely...
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Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media
The Chat Every week, I talk to one of MIT Technology Review’s journalists to go behind the scenes of a story...
The Download: IVF embryo limbo, and Anthropic on AI agents
Millions of embryos created through IVF sit frozen in time, stored in cryopreservation tanks around the world. The number is...
Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
Even people who want to use their embryos may “age out” of using them. Dalla Costa gives the example of...
Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025
2/ Agents will understand context “Claude needs to learn enough about your particular situation and the constraints that you...
The Download: escalating pandemic risks, and ask us anything on Reddit
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meta’s new speech policies allow the...
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
I first covered the virus in an article published on January 7, 2020, which had the headline “Doctors scramble to...
The Download: greener steel, and what 2025 holds for climate tech
As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a...
2025 is a critical year for climate tech
One company, called Stegra, is close to starting up the world’s first commercial green steel plant, which will make the...
A New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI bill
The bill would cover only models that pass a certain threshold for how many computations their training required, typically measured...
The Download: what’s next for AI, and stem-cell therapies
For the last couple of years we’ve had a go at predicting what’s coming next in AI. A fool’s game...
What’s next for AI in 2025
How did we score last time round? Our four hot trends to watch out for in 2024 included what we...
The Download: how AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy in the US
Every day, we are tracked hundreds or even thousands of times across the digital world. All of this is collected,...
How optimistic are you about AI’s future?
Why it matters: These failures show that there are tons of unanswered questions about the technology, including who will moderate...
What’s next for our privacy?
Data brokers and their clients defend these transactions by saying that most of this data is anonymized—though it’s questionable whether...
The Download: our 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025
Each year, we spend months researching and discussing which technologies will make the cut for our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list....
AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
Don’t panic, is Pichai’s message. He argues that even in the age of AI Overviews, people will still want to...
Driving into the future
But the real secret of the TR10 is what we leave off the list. It is hard to think of...
Roundtables: Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: feeding the world with poop, and 2024’s performing stories
Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind? November 2023 Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your...
