Deciding the fate of “leftover” embryos
No one knows for sure how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the figure is thought to be...
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The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI
In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His...
Interest in nuclear power is surging. Is it enough to build new reactors?
In much of the world (China being a notable exception), building new nuclear capacity has historically been expensive and slow....
What to expect from Neuralink in 2025
Robot arm Late last year, Neuralink opened a companion study through which it says some of its existing implant volunteers...
Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages
“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech...
Fueling the future of digital transformation
Luis: Yeah, that's a great question. I have no doubt that the energy business is changing and will continue to...
The Download: China’s marine ranches, and fast-learning robots
A short ferry ride from the port city of Yantai, on the northeast coast of China, sits Genghai No. 1,...
Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse
For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid,...
The Download: the future of nuclear power, and fact checking Mark Zuckerberg
While nuclear reactors have been generating power around the world for over 70 years, the current moment is one of...
What’s next for nuclear power
Much of the funding and industrial activity in advanced reactors is centered in the US, where several companies are close...
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...
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...
