The AI Hype Index: Robot pets, simulated humans, and Apple’s AI text summaries

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary ...
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will transform our understanding of the cosmos

Matter in the universe can warp and magnify the light from more distant objects. The Rubin Observatory will use this ...
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Forging the digital future | MIT Technology Review

It worked out, of course. He headed to Cambridge and gravitated to MIT’s AI Lab in Technology Square, where he ...
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The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future

Some of these automakers—including Volvo, which will buy from Stegra and rival SSAB—are marketing cars made with the green steel ...
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Tapping the wisdom of human-centered fields

When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort ...
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This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases

Their automated system sends data to Chris Gilligan, who leads the modeling arm of Wheat DEWAS at the University of ...
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Revisiting a year of Roundtables, MIT Technology Review’s subscriber-only events

The rise of AI comes with a growing carbon footprint and greater demand for electricity. Analysts project that AI could ...
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How to build (and rebuild) with glass

A tube of glass is extruded in a hot 3D printer.ETHAN TOWNSEND Stern and Kaitlyn Becker ’09, an assistant professor ...
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The humans behind the robots

That’s the question at the center of my story for our magazine, published online today, on whether we will trust ...
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Mars’s ancient atmosphere might be locked in clay

While water was present on Mars, they suggest, the liquid could have trickled through certain rock types and set off ...
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