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The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a ...

An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conver...

Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture c...

OpenAI just released GPT-4.5 and says it is its biggest...

OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language m...

How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass

They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small bl...

Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut

Amazon Web Services today announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computi...

The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newslette...

The Download: Introducing the Relationships issue

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Studying the uninvited guests

Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spil...

Recent books from the MIT community

Differential PrivacyBy Simson L. Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 MIT PRESSS, 2025, $18.95...

Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue

Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells wit...

This is your brain on movies

The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of se...

From climate-warming pollutant to useful material

Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes dispro...

A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelli...

For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the world, its economic ...

Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells

Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and lea...

An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic micr...

The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-...

The man who reinvented the hammer

A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These ar...

The poetry of data

Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in hig...

Michael ’87 and Kathleen Schoen

As an undergraduate, Michael Schoen ’87 found that joining his fraternity, Lambd...

Turning a seaweed crisis into an energy opportunity

In 2019, Legena Henry, SM ’10, and the students in her renewable energy course a...

The Download: our relationships with robots, and DOGE’s...

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8,000 pregnant women may die because of US aid cuts to ...

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biote...

The Download: workplace surveillance, and fighting EV f...

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One option for electric vehicle fires? Let them burn.

In the fall of 2024, a trucking company in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, tempora...

Your boss is watching

A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Fr...

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