Climate news wasn’t great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). It’s set to be either the second ...

Well, sort of. Machine learning, an older form of AI, has long been used in all sorts of scientific research. One branch, called deep learning, forms part of AlphaFold, a Nobel Prize–winning tool for ...

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

Plus: Meta has been accused of burying research in VR's dangers This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology ...

This year, hype around AI really exploded, and so did concerns about AI’s environmental footprint. We also saw some ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, ...

The sudden ascent of the AI therapist seems startlingly futuristic, as if it should be unfolding in some later time when the ...

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Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. The microwave-size instrument at Lila ...

MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI shares what he’s been thinking about lately.