Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year

Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year
Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For ...
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The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal

The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 There’s scant evidence tylenol use during ...
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The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal

The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal
The quest to figure out farming on Mars Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves ...
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This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses

The Download: The LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal
During the appointment, assistants read off questions from the ScopeAI interface, and ScopeAI produces new questions as it analyzes what ...
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The Download: The CDC’s vaccine chaos

The Download: The CDC’s vaccine chaos
Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For ...
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A pivotal meeting on vaccine guidance is underway—and former CDC leaders are alarmed

The Download: The CDC’s vaccine chaos
On Thursday, an advisory CDC panel that develops vaccine guidance met for a two-day discussion on multiple childhood vaccines. During ...
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The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry

The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry
Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research ...
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AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria

The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry
“That was pretty striking, just actually seeing, like, this AI-generated sphere,” says Brian Hie, who leads the lab at the ...
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How to measure the returns on R&D spending

How to measure the returns on R&D spending
If in fact the productivity slowdown was at least partially caused by a drop in public R&D spending, it’s evidence ...
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De-risking investment in AI agents

De-risking investment in AI agents
For businesses, the potential is transformative: AI agents that can handle complex service interactions, support employees in real time, and ...
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