Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back.

2025-02-16

And there was no way to predict how lifelike the resulting voice would be—often it ended up sounding quite artificial. ...

A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.

2025-02-15

“Well, apparently not, because the next day a human banned me!!!!” says Joyce. She says she felt mortified. “I’d just ...

Calligraphy bot | MIT Technology Review

2025-02-15

Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 set out to make a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. They built its ...

China’s electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots

2025-02-14

According to statistics from Shenzhen New Strategy Media’s Industrial Research Institute, there were over 160 humanoid-robot manufacturers worldwide as of ...

The Download: AI-restored voices, and bot relationships

2025-02-13

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...

Harnessing cloud and AI to power a sustainable future

2025-02-13

Data from a poll conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights in 2024 suggests growing momentum for this dynamic duo: 38% ...

Robots are bringing new life to extinct species

2025-02-12

Paleontologists aren’t easily deterred by evolutionary dead ends or a sparse fossil record. But in the last few years, they’ve ...

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone

2025-02-11

These measures still offer immediate protection. After all, AI companies can’t use what they can’t obtain, regardless of how courts ...

The Download: DOGE’s influences, and rescuing federal data from deletion

2025-02-10

1 The Trump administration is slashing billions in biomedical research funding The change, effective immediately, is sending shockwaves through academia. Expect ...