AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria
“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
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
For businesses, the potential is transformative: AI agents that can handle complex service interactions, support employees in real time, and ...
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The Download: computing’s bright young minds, and cleaning up satellite streaks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work
This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was ...
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The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees
Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under ...
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We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis
“When you add all these dimensions, [gun violence is] a very huge public health problem,” says Webster. Researchers who study ...
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AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?
She gives the example of a trip to the airport. Imagine there’s a route you know will get you there ...
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The Download: AI’s energy future
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey ...
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Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management
Unplanned downtime poses a major challenge for organizations, and is estimated to cost Global 2000 companies on average $200 million ...
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