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Dec 17, 2025 - Tom Zeller’s new book sheds light on one of the world’s most confounding and agonizing ailments.

Dec 12, 2025 - Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.

Aug 19, 2025 - It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how.

Jul 15, 2025 - There is enormous potential for AI agents, but only if we deploy it responsibly.

Dec 22, 2025

Feb 5, 2024 - Adding a photocopier gene to mRNA vaccines could make them last longer and curb side effects.

Jan 24, 2025 - A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.

Aug 22, 2024 - Amazon’s Alexa can summon an Uber and satisfy a four-year-old’s demand for fart noises. Siri can control your Internet-connected thermostat. Each serve...

Sep 7, 2022 - Brain electrodes designed to mimic the brain’s hippocampus appear to boost the encoding of memories – and are twice as effective in people with poor memory.

Oct 2, 2025 - The startup is using waste materials and alternative fuels to make cement, slashing greenhouse gas emissions in a polluting industry.

The State of AI is a collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. In each edition, writers from both publications debate one aspect of...

Jul 27, 2022 - Funders of a deep-pocketed new "rejuvenation" startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner.

Aug 25, 2025 - GLP-1 agonists like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro might benefit heart and brain health—but research suggests they might also cause pregnancy complications...

Jan 14, 2026 - In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard.

Jan 12, 2026 - From molten-salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology.

Feb 9, 2022 - In 2001, we picked our first annual set of 10 breakthrough technologies. Here’s what their fates tell us about progress over the last two decades.

Dec 8, 2025 - Senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven talks with Tim Bradshaw, FT global tech correspondent, about what our world will look like in the next five years.

Oct 20, 2025 - Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients' discomfort.

Nov 19, 2025 - Yes, you can pay $50,000 to clone a pet. But others are using the technology to rescue endangered species.

Nov 20, 2025 - Everything is a conspiracy theory now. MIT Technology Review’s series, “The New Conspiracy Age,” explores how this moment is changing science and...

Apr 16, 2025 - New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Oct 14, 2025 - Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the...

Oct 20, 2025 - November/December 2025

Oct 16, 2025 - Mireta wants to translate slime mold’s superpowers into algorithms that might help improve transit times, alleviate congestion, and more.

Oct 14, 2025 - The much-hyped release makes several enhancements to the ChatGPT user experience. But it’s still far short of AGI.

Apr 2, 2020 - Venture capitalist Albert Wenger has done well by investing in Web businesses—he was an early backer of Etsy and Tumblr. But at his urging, Union Square...

Jan 2, 2026 - And why many scientists are freaked out about Stardust Solutions, the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.

Oct 18, 2024 - AI’s usefulness for scientific discovery will be stunted without high-quality data.

Oct 10, 2023 - Forging too fast into controversial terrain can spark backlashes that stall research and limit our options.

Aug 22, 2024 - It was late in 2015, and things were at an impasse. Some four years earlier, Taiwan’s finance ministry had decided to legalize online sales of alcohol. To...

Oct 20, 2025

Jan 24, 2025 - You already know that agents and small language models are the next big things. Here are five other hot trends you should watch out for this year.

Dec 19, 2025 - Four new books grapple with a global mental health crisis and the dawn of algorithmic therapy.

Feb 19, 2025 - Good Fibes wants to take the plastics out of elastics.

Apr 11, 2025 - Colossal Biosciences claims it created dire wolves, but scientists outside the company are skeptical.

Aug 22, 2024 - Anxious couples are approaching fertility doctors in the US with requests for a hotly debated new genetic test being called “23andMe, but on embryos.” The...

Aug 18, 2025 - After an outcry, OpenAI swiftly rereleased 4o to paid users. But experts say it should not have removed the model so suddenly.

May 16, 2025 - The one-off treatment highlights the promise of a new type of gene editing and the challenges of using it to treat extremely rare genetic diseases.

Jun 28, 2024 - In an unusual career progression, James R. Killian, Class of 1926, went from editing the student newspaper to the Institute’s top administrative job—with a...

Aug 21, 2023 - Most of it is breathed out as carbon dioxide and then disappears into thin air.

Oct 29, 2025 - Four years is a lifetime when it comes to artificial intelligence. Since the first edition of this study was published in 2021, AI’s capabilities have been...

Oct 27, 2025 - Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really scale up the sector.

Oct 21, 2025 - The star pitcher has been studying aerospace engineering at MIT. Now his pitches will take flight in professional baseball.

Oct 4, 2023 - Twelve is converting carbon dioxide emissions into sustainable jet fuel and more.

Nov 20, 2025 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental large language model that is far easier to understand than typical models. That’s a big deal, because...

Dec 9, 2024 - The tool is now available to paid subscribers.

Oct 17, 2025 - Cardiologists often struggle to assess heart attack risk. New startups using AI could help.

Jun 17, 2020 - The “techlash,” allegedly, is over. An April op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s local paper, put it most directly: “Covid-19 response...

An MIT Technology Review series Hype Correction  It’s time to reset expectations. AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI...

Sep 1, 2022 - Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?

Oct 24, 2025 - MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science,...

Dec 5, 2025 - In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s senior...

Aug 15, 2023 - From million dollar slide shows to Steve Jobs’ introduction of the iPhone, a bit of showbusiness never hurt plain old business.

Jun 3, 2025 - The UK Ministry of Defence has released the long-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR) which sets guidelines for navigating global animosity.

Jan 22, 2025 - Ammonia, used in fertilizer, is essential to our lives. Addis Energy is trying to make the chemical underground.

Aug 22, 2024 - The last stars clung stubbornly to the cool violet canopy hanging over the San Joaquin Valley. In deepest September, the thick of the pistachio harvest, the...

Dec 4, 2024 - The next big thing is AI tools that can do more complex tasks. Here’s how they will work.

Apr 2, 2020 - The whole point of using a blockchain is to let people—in particular, people who don’t trust one another—share valuable data in a secure, tamperproof...

Nov 14, 2025 - Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development.

Sep 25, 2025 - The president also blamed the painkiller Tylenol for autism, but the evidence doesn’t stack up at all.

Aug 20, 2025 - An atmospheric water harvester based on an origami-inspired hydrogel works anywhere—even Death Valley.

Introducing the 2025 10 Breakthrough Technologies! Fast-learning robots, next-gen jet fuel, new HIV protection meds, the largest camera ever built to document...

Oct 21, 2025 - Army Technology reviews the trends in the armoured vehicles displayed on the show floor at the AUSA 2025 exhibition in Washington DC.

Nov 8, 2024 - With its move to the US, the startup’s self-driving AI must now learn to drive on the right.

Aug 18, 2025 - The way we navigate the web is changing, and it’s paving the way to a more AI-saturated future.

Dec 16, 2025 - Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

Security can mean national defense, but it can also mean control over data, safety from intrusion, and so much more. This issue explores the way technology,...

Sep 5, 2025 - He developed Manus, one of the buzziest AI apps of the year, in the latest project that blends his technical prowess with killer consumer instincts.