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Taking a swing at a pickleball startup
“I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at, watching my friends get murdered,...
A champion for brain injury patients
Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people...
Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far away
Now a professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University, she researches galaxy clusters and baryonic matter (matter made...
A cleaner path to rare earth metals
Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family...
Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon
The rover will also carry a high-performance computer made by HPE that will be the first to run LLMs on...
The new economics of enterprise AI
The infrastructure that returns the best ROI isn't a reference architecture or a bespoke build-out — it's a fully integrated,...
AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
Although some of these sound like niche skills confined to tech, many of them will translate to frontline work across...
The Download: the claim shaking up AI and the internet’s agent problem
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
In front of the fourth fab, I meet Choi Hye-rin, a 35-year-old safety officer, as she wipes her forehead with...
How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster
That means the subsequent uptake of carbon on those stands “more than compensated” for the amount released in the initial...
These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat
Food-production companies are a big target. BMC Ingredients, which collaborated with Perdue on a line of blended nuggets, markets a...
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
But this is being entirely upended by the release of personal AI agents, which can do things for you online,...
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
The researchers concluded that the model was getting at least some of its neurons to multitask, perhaps so that it...
The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy
2 Do we really want AI agents smoothing out all friction in our lives?They promise convenience, but right now they’re...
AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play....
Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon
Hilary Shook, the coordinator of the consortium, stepped off the trail with her thaw probe, a T-shaped pointed metal rod...
How far can we push computing?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand...
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel...
The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy
9 The world’s official timekeepers have agreed to ditch the leap second It’s a move that ought to cut the...
This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 5 million people around the world. And until now, no treatment could restore...
