What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
MIT Technology Reviewby David Rotman·27d ago
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business...
Donated livers can be made biologically younger
MIT Technology Reviewby Jessica Hamzelou·27d ago
Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to...
AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
MIT Technology Reviewby Amit Katwala·27d ago
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them.
The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay·11 Sept 2026
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 technology.
Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech
MIT Technology Reviewby Jessica Hamzelou·11 Sept 2026
Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of some of the brightest and best young minds working across science and technology.
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay·10 Sept 2026
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 technology. God told them to sell crypto.
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
MIT Technology Reviewby James Temple·10 Sept 2026
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar...
Powering AI is an architecture problem
MIT Technology Reviewby Ricardo De Azevedo·10 Sept 2026
Sponsored Provided byON.energy On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world's largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the...
Can the US battery market untangle from China?
MIT Technology Reviewby Casey Crownhart·10 Sept 2026
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can...
God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.
MIT Technology Reviewby Katia Savchuk·10 Sept 2026
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Healthcare AI’s next test is integration
MIT Technology Reviewby Andrew Ray·10 Sept 2026
Sponsored Provided byEnsemble The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry.
The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay·9 Sept 2026
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 technology.
Batteries just broke another record in the US
MIT Technology Reviewby Casey Crownhart·9 Sept 2026
Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report.
Understanding the thermal ceiling in portable power
MIT Technology Reviewby Shuo Yang·9 Sept 2026
Sponsored Provided byAnker Plug a phone into a modern charger and the first 10 minutes are impressive. The next 20 are not. This is not a defect. It’s the connected device protecting itself.
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
MIT Technology Reviewby Grace Huckins·9 Sept 2026
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most...
This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)
MIT Technology Reviewby Eshan Raul·8 Sept 2026
Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice.
This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
MIT Technology Reviewby Mat Honan·8 Sept 2026
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door.
This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel
MIT Technology Reviewby Bridget Reed Morawski·8 Sept 2026
The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s.
This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight
MIT Technology Reviewby Antonio Regalado·8 Sept 2026
Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun.
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
MIT Technology Reviewby MIT Technology Review Insights·4 Sept 2026
Sponsored In partnership withMicron The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an...
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