What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
Moxie, though, belongs to a particular subset of these playful robots whose makers claim they can assist neurodivergent children by...
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The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
This researcher is pushing for better data on gene expression in children
So far, the push has paid off. In 2021 the NIH awarded a $38.5 million grant to the Developmental Genotype-Tissue...
Job titles of the future: Space travel agent
This showed Chiporukha that the sky was no longer the limit; it was the market. He successfully signed up the...
Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
Ishiuchi and his colleague Shogo Matoba of the Riken BioResource Research Center hope their approach could be helpful in conservation...
Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy
Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and...
Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography
A natural evolution, not a cliff edge The "quantum threat" narrative often swings between two extremes: imminent catastrophe or distant...
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
To combat that, the company will start requiring officers to enter a criminal case number before conducting a search. The...
The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
When we set out to talk to kids about AI, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected stories...
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
We’ve already entered an El Niño phase, defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a period when we...
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
When I was growing up, I always liked building things: Lego builds, Minecraft worlds, and then video games in Scratch....
Scientists just created female clones of male mice
The feat could change the way scientists think about reproduction, says Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of...
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
As AI agents become embedded more widely in enterprise operations, the need to overcome the restrictions of legacy data systems...
The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young...
How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy
And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office was called, was accused of serving as the State Department’s central hub in...
The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Nvidia has secured $500...
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
It’s a weird time for university AI researchers, who make up most of the AI2050 group. In the past four...
The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
In 2024, Google DeepMind scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a neural network, AlphaFold, which predicts the structures...
AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
To be sure, AI will bring extraordinary changes to science, but it has become increasingly clear that AlphaFold, and things...
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
It turns out this process works on text too. Inception has trained its LLMs to take a random string of...
