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The Download: RIP EV tax credits, and OpenAI’s new valuation

1 OpenAI has become the world’s most valuable startupMove aside, SpaceX. (Bloomberg $)+ OpenAI is now valued at an eye-watering $500 billion. (FT $)+ The valuation came after workers sold around $6.6... Read more »

EV tax credits are dead in the US. Now what?

Ultimately, it’s not terribly surprising that there are local effects around these policy changes. “The question is really how long this decline will last, and how slowly any recovery in the growth... Read more »

Turning migration into modernization

“There’s still a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace around VMware,” explains Matt Crognale, senior director, migrations and modernization at cloud modernization firm Effectual, adding that the VMware portfolio has been streamlined... Read more »

Roundtables: Trump’s Impact on the Next Generation of Innovators

Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes dozens of young researchers on our Innovators Under 35 list. We checked back in with recent honorees to see how they’re faring amid sweeping changes to science and... Read more »

Unlocking AI’s full potential requires operational excellence

Capturing, documenting, and distributing knowledge at scale is critical to organizational success with AI. Yet our survey showed only 16% of respondents say their workflows are extremely well-documented. The top barriers to... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made

Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to an MIT Technology Review investigation. Though CEO Sam Altman boasted about India being its second-largest market during the launch of GPT-5... Read more »

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

Stereotypical imagery When we tested Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, we found that it, too, is marred by harmful caste stereotypes. Sora generates both videos and images from a text prompt, and we... Read more »

Exclusive: OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

Stereotypical imagery When we tested Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, we found that it, too, is marred by harmful caste stereotypes. Sora generates both videos and images from a text prompt, and we... Read more »

Powering HPC with next-generation CPUs

What makes CPUs so enduring? Flexibility, compatibility, and cost efficiency are key. As Evan Burness of Microsoft Azure points out, CPUs remain the “it-just-works” technology. Moving complex, proprietary code to GPUs can... Read more »

Designing CPUs for next-generation supercomputing

With GPU-powered AI breakthroughs getting the lion’s share of press (and investment) in 2025, it is tempting to assume that CPUs are yesterday’s news. Recent predictions anticipate that GPU and accelerator installations... Read more »