The Download: what to expect in AI in 2024
Looking to the year ahead, all signs point to there being immense pressure on AI companies to show that generative...
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What to expect from the coming year in AI
I also had plenty of time to reflect on the past year. There are so many more of you reading...
The Download: Introducing MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2024
The start of a new year offers a great opportunity to reflect while also thinking about what’s to come. That...
Four lessons from 2023 that tell us where AI regulation is going
Most broadly, we are likely to see the strategies that emerged last year continue, expand, and begin to be implemented....
The first gene-editing treatment: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
Many CRISPR treatments are in trials, but in 2022, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, based in Boston, was first to bring one to...
AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
Microsoft and Google have since moved beyond search to put chatbot-based assistants into the hands of billions of people via...
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: producing rare earth minerals, and future AI regulation
Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change....
These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough
“One of the big limitations is that a lot of these studies have private data sets that are secret,” Bensoussan...
What’s next for AI regulation in 2024?
Some other countries are taking a more hands-off approach. For example, the UK, home of Google DeepMind, has said it...
The race to produce rare earth materials
Rivalia prefers to work with existing waste products as opposed to coal that has not yet been burned. This approach...
Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says...
The art of unearthing history
“I’ll scratch film or cut it up or reassemble it or add things like saffron leaves and petals or tree...
Can AI provide better customer service?
Taking on big challenges is nothing new for Tsai, who was just 15 when she arrived at MIT. And while...
Calculating the costs of war
To fuel such change, Crawford works to make clear the full cost of military activity, providing data on dollars spent,...
“Every project is a new adventure,” says architectural shape-shifter
Samyn grew up in the Belgian countryside, where his father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a painter....
The Download: greener cement, and the biggest tech stories of 2023
+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis all made our...
The race is on to save coral reefs—by freezing them
Hagedorn and her collaborators have been able to cryopreserve larvae since 2018, but the process was finicky, and thawing them...
How electricity could help tackle a surprising climate villain
To be on track for net-zero goals, the cement industry would need to add carbon capture facilities to between 33...
The Download: solving the mystery of hunger, and the climate-tech boom
When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon. It awakens the most ancient and primitive parts of the brain, then...
