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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Because the foundation holds a 26% equity stake in OpenAI, it is now be on track to become the richest...

The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...

What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

“History tells us that at some point you get a retrenchment, and it’s just a question of when and how...

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

What might this coordinated effort actually achieve? Consider the Hugging Face attack again. OpenAI has said that the model that...

When AI agents cheated at math, other AI agents blew the whistle on them

“After the incident was reported by one agent publicly, more and more agents piled in with the ‘resistance,’ just as...

Donated livers can be made biologically younger

According to the clocks, which were developed to measure age and risk of death, the machine-perfused livers were biologically younger,...

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter Grace Huckins for...

Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all?

Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are...

The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

Their innovations include a “reprogramming” therapy that reverses vision loss, tiny brain electrodes inspired by Japanese art, and a personalized...

Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech

Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across...

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

A prior authorization workflow, for example, may require retrieving clinical documentation through fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) APIs, mapping patient...

The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

That October, the Regalados later testified in court, they received holdings in a little-known digital coin. “Take this to my...

Powering AI is an architecture problem

Asking more from the grid The grid was built around predictable loads: steel mills, refineries, and houses at dinnertime. Different...

This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

In addition, not everyone agrees that experiments at those scales will get us to the point where we’re capable of...

Can the US battery market untangle from China?

There’s an argument to be made about reducing reliance on any single source of a crucial energy technology. But all...

God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

This time around, as Eli tells it, his public defender warned him that it was “legally impossible” that he’d be...

The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...

Understanding the thermal ceiling in portable power

In internal testing, at 77 °F (25 °C) ambient, the back of the power bank stays below 96.8 °F (36...

Batteries just broke another record in the US

Massive, utility-scale systems are leading the way; they’re responsible for most of the record-setting quarter. Seven new gigascale battery installations...