How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat
“Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri...
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The Download: synthetic cow embryos, and AI jobs of the future
About a decade ago, biologists started to observe that stem cells, left alone in a walled plastic container, will spontaneously...
Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
But bovines may not be far behind. There’s a large assisted-reproduction industry in cattle, with more than a million IVF...
The Download: the cancer vaccine renaissance, and working towards a decarbonized future
Last week, Moderna and Merck launched a large clinical trial in the UK of a promising new cancer therapy: a...
Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance
Personalized cancer vaccines like the ones Moderna and BioNTech are developing are tailored to each patient’s particular cancer. The researchers...
The Download: Sam Altman on AI’s killer function, and the problem with ethanol
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives. During...
Three takeaways about the current state of batteries
We’ve started to see this play out in California. Renewables are able to supply nearly all the grid’s energy demand...
A US push to use ethanol as aviation fuel raises major climate concerns
Corn, like any plant that uses photosynthesis to produce food, sucks up carbon dioxide from the air. But using corn...
Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function
It’s a leap from OpenAI’s current offerings. Its leading applications, like DALL-E, Sora, and ChatGPT (which Altman referred to as “incredibly...
The Download: mysterious radio energy from outer space, and banning TikTok
When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook...
The depressing truth about TikTok’s impending ban
That 2020 executive order came to nothing in the end—it was blocked in the courts, put aside after the presidency...
Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy
As a leader in the field and a key player in the advancement of FRB research, Macquart would have been...
Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
Roboticists believe that, using new AI techniques, they can unlock more capable robots that can move freely through unfamiliar environments...
My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI
Synthesia has managed to create AI avatars that are remarkably humanlike after only one year of tinkering with the latest...
The robot race is fueling a fight for training data
“A lot of people are scrambling to figure out what’s the next big data source,” says Pras Velagapudi, chief technology...
The Download: inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden...
Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
One of those systems is Israel’s Iron Dome, in which radar systems detect projectiles and then signal units to launch...
The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my biotech plants
How it works: The Trustworthy Language Model gives any output generated by a large language model a score between 0...
My biotech plants are dead
Hodge says he got interested in the plants after reading an article about combating light pollution by using bioluminescent flora...
