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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Nov 19

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · 13 h

The Download: how to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI trib.al/m2erZyz

techreview's tweet card. Plus: what's going on with America's data centers?

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · 14 h

This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells trib.al/XViosc1

techreview's tweet card. Quaise is taking its technology from the lab to field trials for the first time this year.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · 16 h

Five things you need to know about AI right now trib.al/lNYsfR7

techreview's tweet card. Here’s how our senior editor, Will Douglas Heaven, is thinking about the AI landscape in 2025.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 21

The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors trib.al/ozE0ek3

techreview's tweet card. Plus: Microsoft is trying to fix a major security vulnerability

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 21

AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors trib.al/OL4aqhu

techreview's tweet card. Once cautious, OpenAI, Grok, and others will now dive into giving unverified medical advice with virtually no disclaimers.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 18

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data trib.al/KRet4li

techreview's tweet card. Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 18

The Download: how to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies” trib.al/bZ5a4Vf

techreview's tweet card. Plus: OpenAI's new agent is here

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 18

A brief history of “three-parent babies” trib.al/Slp4CAY

techreview's tweet card. A UK team announced the births of eight babies born with DNA from three people. But around the world, others have already been born.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 17

How to run an LLM on your laptop trib.al/qnPmpk0

techreview's tweet card. It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 17

The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US trib.al/5lFoSTB

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 17

In defense of air-conditioning trib.al/lIAQNQc

techreview's tweet card. Why air-conditioning is the wrong climate villain.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 16

Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF trib.al/YzTIMiu

techreview's tweet card. The long-awaited results of the 2017 trial suggest that the approach can reduce the risk of mitochondrial disease—but not everyone is convinced.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 16

These four charts show where AI companies could go next in the US trib.al/LHhPQ7u

techreview's tweet card. The main tech hubs get a lot of the buzz, but AI is affecting workplaces all over.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 16

The Download: Veo 3’s subtitles problem, and the future of our planet’s resources trib.al/hYVAi3z

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 15

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem trib.al/opr00ci

techreview's tweet card. The AI model is still slapping garbled, nonsensical captions on videos more than a month after launch, even when users explicitly ask for no captions at all.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 15

The Download: combating audio deepfakes, and AI in the classroom trib.al/t7sbu2O

techreview's tweet card. Plus: Nvidia says it's going to resume sales of AI chips to China

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 15

AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people trib.al/Dr8TEmb

techreview's tweet card. New research shows models can be directly edited to hide selected voices, even when users specifically ask for them.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 15

AI’s giants want to take over the classroom trib.al/jIQqKpy

techreview's tweet card. OpenAI and Anthropic say AI can help students learn—not just cheat—even if real-world use suggests otherwise.

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 14

The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair trib.al/v8geNsN

techreview's tweet card. Plus: sick children are already being affected by Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill.'

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MIT Technology Review@techreview · Jul 14

California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI trib.al/ypgZ9am

techreview's tweet card. The software uses generative AI to analyze and carry out real-time analyses for grid operators.

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