Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage...
Speakers: Mat Honan, editor in chief, and Niall Firth, executive editor. Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite...
This week Musk has latched onto the first two. On February 5, he wrote that Medicare “is where the big money fraud is happening,” and the next day, when an X user...
MIT Technology Review Narrated: Is this the end of animal testing? Animal studies are notoriously bad at identifying human treatments. Around 95% of the drugs developed through animal...
Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many possibilities. And even a protein of typical length can be changed in...
As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer more than 13 feet thick. Making this metal produces...
YANG GUANYU/XINHUA/ALAMY Chinese universities are world leaders in applied sciences, from agricultural research to materials science. But fundamental questions aren’t always easy to answer in China’s “quite unique” research...
“Enterprises are trying to rush to figure out how to implement or incorporate generative AI into their business to gain efficiencies,” says Will Fritcher, deputy chief client officer at TP....