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Roundtables: How does AI work?

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 »

Roundtables: How should we regulate AI?

How should we regulate AI? Speakers: Melissa Heikkilä, Senior reporter for AI and Charlotte Jee, News editor There’s little doubt that artificial intelligence will be subject to more regulation in the years... Read more »

Roundtables: The AI Economy

The AI Economy Speakers: Mat Honan, Editor in chief and David Rotman, Editor at large There’s no doubt that generative AI will impact the economy—but how, exactly, remains an open question. Despite... Read more »

Organoids made from amniotic fluid will tell us how fetuses develop

Researchers have known for decades that amniotic fluid holds fetal cells. That’s what allows doctors to diagnose conditions like Down syndrome and sickle-cell disease before birth via amniocentesis, in which a needle... Read more »

Advancing AI innovation with cutting-edge solutions  

Some companies are deep into their AI journey, delivering advanced AI-enabled products and services, but many businesses are at the early stages and are struggling with where and how to best apply... Read more »

The Download: the mystery of LLMs, and the EU’s Big Tech crackdown

Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take to get a large language model to do basic arithmetic. At first,... Read more »

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

“These are exciting times,” says Boaz Barak, a computer scientist at Harvard University who is on secondment to OpenAI’s superalignment team for a year. “Many people in the field often compare it... Read more »

The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists

Orenstein and the Garbal team—roughly a dozen local data analysts, project managers, digital finance experts, and tele-agents with degrees in livestock management and applied agriculture—have designed different tools for herders’ needs. For... Read more »

The Download: tech help for herders, and bacteria clean-ups

1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10% by 2025. (NYT $)+ AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think. (MIT Technology... Read more »

How some bacteria are cleaning up our messy water supply

It’s not just medicines. A dizzying number of personal care products also end up in the sewers—coconut shampoos and hydrating body washes and expensive face serums and … well, the list goes... Read more »