Here’s a sneak peek at what made our 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies
Our new 2024 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies won't come out until January. But I recently gave attendees at EmTech...
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Medical microrobots that can travel inside your body are (still) on their way
Okay, I know what you’re probably thinking. We’ve been hearing about the use of tiny robots in medicine for years,...
These robots know when to ask for help
A new training model, dubbed “KnowNo,” aims to address this problem by teaching robots to ask for our help when...
The lucky break behind the first CRISPR treatment
The association technique hasn’t always paid off—but starting in 2007, the gene searches hit pay dirt for sickle-cell. In one...
The Download: Google’s Gemini is here, and Sundar Pichai talks AI
Hype about Gemini, Google DeepMind’s long-rumored response to OpenAI’s GPT-4, has been building for months. Now, the company has finally...
How carbon removal technology is like a time machine
Imagine all carbon removal technology as one big time machine, winding the clock back on emissions. If the world is...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Gemini and the coming age of AI
There will be newer jobs that are created. There will be jobs which are made better, where some of the...
Google DeepMind’s new Gemini model looks amazing—but could signal peak AI hype
“The model is innately more capable,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, told MIT Technology...
The Download: AI coding assistants, and China’s app disputes
Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah Gift told...
How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made
The key idea behind Copilot and other programs like it, sometimes called code assistants, is to put the information that...
Chinese apps are letting public juries settle customer disputes
I’m fascinated by these experiments that give power back to the users and let them make decisions on platform rules...
The Download: Big Tech’s AI stranglehold, and gene-editing treatments
—By Amba Kak, Sarah Myers West and Meredith Whittaker, members of the AI Now Institute Until late November, when the...
AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think
But there’s one thing people aren’t talking enough about, and that’s the carbon footprint of AI. One part of the...
Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech
The recent OpenAI saga, in which Microsoft exerted its quiet but firm dominance over the “capped profit” entity, provides a...
Fossil-fuel emissions are over a million times greater than carbon removal efforts
“There has been great progress in reducing emissions in some countries—however, it just isn’t good enough. We’re drastically off course,”...
Capitalizing on machine learning with collaborative, structured enterprise tooling teams
Having centralized enterprise MLOps and engineering teams ask these questions can free up the business to solve customer problems, and...
I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life.
I’m very aware of how privileged I am to have been an early recipient and to reap the benefits of...
The Download: cleantech 2.0, and ‘jury duty’ on Chinese delivery apps
On a sultry summer night in 2019, the MV Manukai was arriving at the port of Shanghai. The city would...
Meet the 15-year-old deepfake victim pushing Congress into action
Francesca: I would really like for whoever’s doing this to be suspended or expelled, because I think it’s important for...
Users are doling out justice on a Chinese food delivery app
To her surprise, the post attracted much more attention than she’s ever received. She soon got more than 2,000 comments,...