This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...
What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list. We can’t see the future, but we expect these technologies to affect our world ...
A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These ...
New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.
From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s top AI ...
The Swedish startup Stegra has raised close to $7 billion to produce zero-emissions steel using green hydrogen starting in ...
That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...
As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other ...
After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.
Most big tech firms now boast fun-size versions of their flagship models for this purpose: OpenAI offers both GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini; Google DeepMind has Gemini Ultra and Gemini Nano; and Anthropic’s ...