A Note from the Editor

The latest issue of MIT Technology Review is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed more people. Read More

Now read the rest of The Algorithm

NotebookLM is a surprise hit. Here are some of the ways people are using it. The award recognizes foundational contributions to deep learning, a technology that Hinton has since come to fear. Tech ... Read More

Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality

What a floundering military goggle project reveals about where our experiences with the technology are headed next, according to the founder of Oculus. Read More

The Download: food from thin air, and finding new materials

What’s new: Meta is releasing a massive data set and models, called Open Materials 2024, that could help scientists use AI to discover new materials much faster. OMat24 tackles one of the biggest ... Read More

Cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub

To make AI accessible to everyone and train the next generation of AI leaders, more academic centers need to be created dedicated to collaborative research and development. Read More

The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation

From energy storage to thermal batteries, meet the businesses that are shaping a greener, more sustainable future. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily ... Read More

Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.

People are spending thousands of dollars on unproven exosome therapies for hair loss, skin aging, and acne, as well as more serious conditions like long covid and Alzheimer’s. Read More

The Download: coping in a time of arrhythmia, and DNA data storage

The news: It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to encode data in DNA. Researchers have been working on DNA-based data storage for decades, but a new template-based method inspired by our ... Read More

MIT Technology Review presents EmTech AI, the longest running AI business conference, set for May 2025

MIT Technology Review's signature conference for AI leadership returns spring 2025 with a new look and continued focus on generative AI and its role in business and society ... Read More

The Download: mysterious exosomes, and AI’s e-waste issue

The news: Generative AI could add up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste in total by 2030, according to a new study. That’s a relatively small fraction of the current global total of over 60 million ... Read More

AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total. Read More

94% of business leaders are using generative AI for software development, reveals new MIT Technology Review Insights research report

One-fifth (20%) describe generative AI as an "established, well-integrated part" of their software development lifecycle (SDLC), and one-third (33%) report it's "widely used" in at least part of their ... Read More