Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones
“Instead of a 911 call (that triggers the drone), it’s an alarm call,” says Keith Kauffman, a former police chief…
The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?
That meant that more people met the criteria for an autism diagnosis. Lerner points out that there is also far…
Roundtables: The Future of Birth Control
Conversations around birth control usually focus on women, but Kevin Eisenfrats, one of the MIT Technology Review 2025 Innovators Under…
The Download: accidental AI relationships, and the future of contraception
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year
Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For…
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
“If (a tool is) facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,”…
This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses
During the appointment, assistants read off questions from the ScopeAI interface, and ScopeAI produces new questions as it analyzes what…
An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems
The agreement will see Eni purchase electricity from Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. The facility is still…
The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal
The quest to figure out farming on Mars Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves…