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The Download: China’s AI agent boom, and GPS alternatives

Last year, China saw a boom in foundation models, the do-everything large language models that underpin the AI revolution. This year, the focus has shifted to AI agents—systems that are less about... Read more »

Inside the race to find GPS alternatives

“Just because of this shorter distance, we will put down signals that will be approximately a hundred times stronger than the GPS signal,” says Tyler Reid, chief technology officer and cofounder of... Read more »

Why doctors should look for ways to prescribe hope

Researchers are still trying to understand the connection between body and mind, and how our thoughts can influence our physiology. In the meantime, many are developing ways to harness it in hospital... Read more »

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China

In the case of Manus, the competition is moving fast. Two of the most buzzy follow‑ups, Genspark and Flowith, for example, are already boasting benchmark scores that match or edge past Manus’s. ... Read more »

The Download: funding a CRISPR embryo startup, and bad news for clean cement

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Reddit is suing Anthropic Reddit claims the AI company kept accessing its site after claiming it had stopped. (WSJ... Read more »

Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech

“I think the time is right for the defining company in the US to be built in this area,” Armstrong posted.  The announcement from a deep-pocketed backer is a striking shift for... Read more »

Over $1 billion in federal funding got slashed for this polluting industry

The startup’s approach is to make cement using electricity. The conventional process requires high temperatures typically achieved by burning fossil fuels, so avoiding that could prevent a lot of emissions.  In 2024,... Read more »

MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump He called Trump’s domestic policy agenda a “disgusting abomination.” (NYT $)+ House Speaker... Read more »

What’s next for AI and math

This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high scores on the... Read more »