The Download: computing’s bright young minds, and cleaning up satellite streaks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?
Texas joins six other US states and the country of Italy in banning these products. These legal challenges are adding…
How do AI models generate videos?
But you don’t want any image—you want the image you specified, typically with a text prompt. And so the diffusion…
The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work
This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was…
Partnering with generative AI in the finance function
Generative AI is also showing promise in functions like treasury, with use cases including cash, revenue, and liquidity forecasting and…
We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis
“When you add all these dimensions, (gun violence is) a very huge public health problem,” says Webster. Researchers who study…
The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees
Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under…
Help! My therapist is secretly using ChatGPT
It’s my favorite AI story as of late, probably because it captures so well the chaos that can unfold when…
The Download: AI’s energy future
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey…
AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?
She gives the example of a trip to the airport. Imagine there’s a route you know will get you there…