MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review is a magazine created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It originally started in 1899 as The Technology Review but was rebranded on April 23, 1998, dropping "The" from its title, under the leadership of publisher R. Bruce Journey. In September 2005, it was revamped again by the current editor-in-chief and publisher, Jason Pontin, bringing it back to a style similar to its earlier days.

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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies

4 days ago | technologyreview.com | James Temple

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world. The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works.
Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Caiwei Chen |Antonio Regalado

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children. While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his come-back trail has been his X.com account, @Jiankui_He, which has become his main way of spreading his ideas to the world.
Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Rhiannon Williams

While Claude Opus 4 will be limited to paying Anthropic customers, a second model, Claude Sonnet 4, will be available for both paid and free tiers of users. Opus 4 is being marketed as a powerful, large model for complex challenges, while Sonnet 4 is described as a smart, efficient model for everyday use. Both of the new models are hybrid, meaning they can offer a swift reply or a deeper, more reasoned response depending on the nature of a request.
A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Sophia Chen

In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not meet. The German side hovered 54 centimeters above the Swiss side. The misalignment occurred because the German engineers had measured elevation with a historic level of the North Sea as its zero point, while the Swiss ones had used the Mediterranean Sea, which was 27 centimeters lower.
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review

2 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | James O'Donnell

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
This baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug

3 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Antonio Regalado

The baby who was treated, Kyle “KJ” Muldoon Jr., suffers from a rare metabolic condition caused by a particularly unusual gene misspelling. Researchers say their attempt to correct the error demonstrates the high level of precision new types of gene editors offer. “I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that this is the future of medicine,” says Kiran Musunuru, an expert in gene editing at the University of Pennsylvania whose team designed the drug.
A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play

3 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Antonio Regalado

In patent law, this moment is known as conception—the instant a lightbulb appears over an inventor’s head, revealing a definite and workable plan for how an invention is going to function. In 2022, a specialized body called the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or PTAB, decided that Doudna and Charpentier hadn’t fully conceived the invention because they initially encountered trouble getting their editor to work in fish and other species.
A new AI translation system for headphones clones multiple voices simultaneously

4 weeks ago | technologyreview.com | Rhiannon Williams

Spatial Speech Translation consists of two AI models, the first of which divides the space surrounding the person wearing the headphones into small regions and uses a neural network to search for potential speakers and pinpoint their direction. The second model then translates the speakers’ words from French, German, or Spanish into English text using publicly available data sets.
This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

1 month ago | technologyreview.com | Antonio Regalado

What’s amazing, of course, is that Smith can steer a pointer with his brain well enough to text with his wife at home and answer our emails. Since he’d only been semi-famous for a few days, he told us, he didn’t want to opine too much on philosophical questions about the authenticity of his AI-assisted posts. “I don’t want to wade in over my head,” he said. “I leave it for experts to argue about that!” The eye tracker Smith previously used to type required low light and worked only indoors.
Bryan Johnson wants to start a new religion in which “the body is God”

1 month ago | technologyreview.com | Jessica Hamzelou

So it’s a different way of thinking about religion? Yeah. Right now, religion doesn’t hold the highest status in society. A lot of people look down on it in some way. I think as AI progresses, it’s going to create additional questions on who we are: What is our identity? What do we believe about our existence in the future? People are going to want some kind of framework that helps them make sense of the moment. So I think there’s going to be a shift toward religion in the coming years.