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Would you eat dried microbes? This company hopes so.

The global food system is responsible for roughly 25% to 35% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions today (depending on how you tally them up), and much of that comes from animal... Read more »

Google DeepMind’s new AI model is the best yet at weather forecasting

Google DeepMind isn’t the only big tech firm that is applying AI to weather forecasting. Nvidia released FourCastNet in 2022. And in 2023 Huawei developed its Pangu-Weather model, which trained on 39... Read more »

The Download: the Russia-Ukraine war’s effect on tech, and shaking up AI search

In the future, CRISPR will get easier and easier to administer, potentially opening up paths for tinkering with human evolution. What will that mean for our species? This is our latest story... Read more »

The search startup trying to turn the web into a database

“The web is a collection of data, but it’s a mess,” says Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk. “There’s a Joe Rogan video over here, an Atlantic article over there. There’s no... Read more »

How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe

LMT’s Pollaks says he has visited Ukraine often since the war began. Though he declines to give more details, he euphemistically describes Ukraine’s wartime bureaucracy as “nonstandardized.” If you want to blow... Read more »

The startup trying to turn the web into a database

“The web is a collection of data, but it’s a mess,” says Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk. “There’s a Joe Rogan video over here, an Atlantic article over there. There’s no... Read more »

The Download: nominate an Innovator Under 35, and AI policy

Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 young innovators who are doing pioneering work across a range of technical fields including biotechnology, materials science, artificial intelligence, computing, and more.  Previous winners include... Read more »

Nominate someone to our 2025 list of Innovators Under 35

Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 young innovators who are doing pioneering work across a range of technical fields including biotechnology, materials science, artificial intelligence, computing, and more.  We’re now taking... Read more »

How US AI policy might change under Trump

Prabhakar was a key player in passing the president’s executive order on AI in 2023, which sets rules for tech companies to make AI safer and more transparent (though it relies on... Read more »

Moving generative AI into production

Yet, difficulty successfully deploying generative AI continues to hamper progress. Companies know that generative AI could transform their businesses—and that failing to adopt will leave them behind—but they are faced with hurdles... Read more »