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...
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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 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 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 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...
We need to start wrestling with the ethics of AI agents
This future feels far off, but it isn’t. There’s a chance that when we get there, there will be even...
The Download: Trump’s tariffs, and the DOJ’s proposals for Google
President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” plan to enact huge tariffs on imported goods threatens to jack up the cost and...
Google’s antitrust gut punch and the Trump wild card
First, some background. The case was first filed back in 2020. Then in August, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in favor...
How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
Over time, Trump’s tariffs may indeed compel companies to bring more of their manufacturing operations back to the US and...
The Download: how OpenAI tests its models, and the ethics of uterus transplants
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI may launch a...
Who should get a uterus transplant? Experts aren’t sure.
In that first trial, Brännström’s team transplanted uteruses into nine women, each of whom had IVF to create and store...
How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
When OpenAI tested DALL-E 3 last year, it used an automated process to cover even more variations of what users...
