Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Arti: Yeah, so I think for us, we think about a triple mandate around responsible AI, and that means that...
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Why we’re watching these climate tech companies
Our chosen companies tend to reflect several aspects of the current moment. Here are some of the companies we picked...
AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
The company claims that the model exhibits the first signs of compositional generalization, a term for AI systems’ ability to...
The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Credits EditorialLead editor: Amy NordrumClimate team: Casey Crownhart, James TempleEditing: Casey Crownhart, Niall Firth, Mary Beth Griggs, Corinne Iozzio, Amy...
Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch
Technology alone can’t solve climate change. But we believe innovations can help us make real changes and improve lives around...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries
Also, in lithium-based batteries the electrolyte, which facilitates ion transfer, uses a flammable liquid that can create a fire hazard. ...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Form Energy and its iron batteries
Form Energy wants to build cheaper long-duration energy storage technology. The company has developed a new type of battery, built...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors
X-energy’s proposed Xe-100 reactor will use helium gas as a coolant instead, allowing it to operate at much lower pressures...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries
Compressing gas to store energy isn’t new—utilities have been using compressed air in underground caverns to hang on to reserves...
Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers
The company found that, over time, the drugs cause a wide slowdown in aging clocks—as much as 4 years in...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals
Brimstone also suffered a major stumble last year, when the Trump administration revoked a $189 million grant intended to subsidize...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: WaveSave and its portable rubber dam
Developed in 2013 in the Netherlands, SlamDam was initially tested and is still used today by regional water authorities in...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses
The company doesn’t manufacture its own buses—the vehicles come from China and are assembled in Kenya. BasiGo’s innovation lies in...
10 climate tech companies to watch
We urgently need to cut emissions and avoid climate change’s most harmful effects, and that’s where our 10 companies come...
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries
Today, their vision looks prescient. Disasters including hurricanes and wildfires continue to spur blackouts, and booming data center demand has...
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
The purpose of this report, which is based on a survey of 300 data, AI, and other technology executives, is...
Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
Intelligent analytics, powered by technologies like deep learning and generative AI, are making this possible. Real-time training allows AI to...
The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM designed to come up with...
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
But here’s what I really think is going on: When people say they hate AI it’s not the technology they...
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
There’s much more to discover These are just two sessions from EmTech Future 2026. Across three days, EmTech Future explored some of the most important questions...
