The Download: A conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?
In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new ...
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The Download: hunting an asteroid, and unlocking the human mind
If you were told that the odds of something were 3.1%, it might not seem like much. But for the ...
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Building an innovation ecosystem for the next century
Megan: And last year, when Michigan’s Governor Whitmer announced this new initiative and your position, she noted the need to ...
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Producing tangible business benefits from modern iPaaS solutions
The scenario illustrates the power of iPaaS in action. For many enterprises, iPaaS turns what was once a costly, complex ...
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The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing
If in retrospect all that seems obvious, it’s only because the research by David Autor, an MIT labor economist, and ...
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The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics
Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when ...
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Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality
Let’s start with the term “agent” itself. Right now, it’s being slapped on everything from simple scripts to sophisticated AI ...
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The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in ...
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The Download: How AI could improve the safety of construction sites, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao
More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry ...
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How generative AI could help make construction sites safer
Answers to multiple questions (Does the person on the ladder have three points of contact? Are they using the ladder ...
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