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Integrating sustainability into business strategy
Multiple factors are driving organizations to prioritize sustainability. Regulations are requiring organizations to meet emissions disclosure requirements. Investors are increasingly incorporating sustainability into decision-making processes. Consumers are demanding environmentally and ethically sustainable products. Employees, particularly millennials and Generation Z, want to work for organizations whose morals and ethics reflect their own. According to the Deloitte...
The Download: climate heroes, and a new way to track diseases
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Meet the climate innovators of tomorrow A lot of bright minds are working on solutions to climate change. You can find some of them in the latest edition of our annual 35 Innovators...
Meet the climate innovators of tomorrow
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. A lot of bright minds are working on solutions to climate change. You can find some of them in the latest edition of our annual 35 Innovators Under 35 list. We've highlighted...
Meet the 2023 Innovators Under 35
MIT Technology Review's 2023 list of 35 Innovators Under 35 is now live. This annual list recognizes young entrepreneurs, researchers, and scientists working in some of the most promising areas of technology today. Explore the list and meet this year's class of innovators, who are working across fields including artificial intelligence, climate and energy, biotechnology,...
Investing in holistic innovation
For many organizations, innovation is focused on a few strategically prioritized initiatives and often is incremental by design. Change and the surprises it brings can be a grudgingly accepted necessity. Savvy companies, however, acknowledge that innovation must also be part of a firm's strategy and deployed through every department. The value of most companies in...
The Download: Google’s anti-censorship tool, and China’s critical minerals
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship The news: Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran's government during the 2022 protests, the company has...
How China hopes to secure its supply chain for critical minerals
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review's newsletter about technology developments in China.Sign upto receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. When China announced back in July that it was restricting exports of germanium and gallium, it was a reminder of the leverage that China holds in the global supply chain for...
Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship
Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran's government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users living under authoritarian regimes all over the world. Jigsaw, a unit of Google that operates sort of like an internet freedom think tank and that creates related...
The Download: introducing our TR35 innovators
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: Our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2023 How do you know what's coming next, especially with a topic as fast-moving as technology? One way is to focus on the technology itself,...
Building ethical thinking into technology
In his essay introducing this year's class of Innovators Under 35, Andrew Ng argues that AI is a general-purpose technology, much like electricity, that will be built into everything else. Indeed, it's true, and it's already happening. AI is rapidly becoming a tool that powers all sorts of other tools, a technological underpinning for a...
She was a semi-pro Go player but learned that biology is even harder
Julia Joung is one of MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovators Under 35. When an AI beat one of the world's best Go players in 2017, Julia Joung felt relief. She'd spent her childhood in Taiwan mastering the ancient game and once aspired to become a professional player, representing her country. I felt like part of...
2023 Innovator of the Year: As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe
Sharon Li is MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovator of the Year. Meet the rest of this year's Innovators Under 35. As we launch AI systems from the lab into the real world, we need to be prepared for these systems to break in surprising and catastrophic ways. It's already happening. Last year, for example, a...
This startup plans to power a tugboat with ammonia later this year
Young Suk Jo is one of MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovators Under 35. Transportation is one of the world's most polluting industries, accounting for roughly 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Electric vehicles will make a dent in those emissions in the coming decades, but batteries can't hold enough energy to power vehicles used in other...
Andrew Ng: How to be an innovator
This essay is part of MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovators Under 35 package.Meet this year's honorees. Innovation is a powerful engine for uplifting society and fueling economic growth. Antibiotics, electric lights, refrigerators, airplanes,smartphones-we have these things because innovators created something that didn't exist before. MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list celebrates individuals who have...
Robots that learn as they fail could unlock a new era of AI
Lerrel Pinto is one of MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovators Under 35. Asked to explain his work, Lerrel Pinto, 31, likes to shoot back another question: When did you last see a cool robot in your home? The answer typically depends on whether the person asking owns a robot vacuum cleaner: yesterday or never. Pinto's...
How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks
Yatish Turakhia is one of MIT Technology Review's 2023 Innovators Under 35. When covid-19 started spreading in early 2020, scientists quickly realized that tracking how the virus was mutating would be essential for public health as new strains emerged that put people at greater risk. Yatish Turakhia, then a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz's Genomics...
There’s never been a more important time in AI policy
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Before we get started I wanted to flag two great talks this week. On Tuesday, September 12, at 12 p.m. US Eastern time, we will be hosting asubscriber-only roundtableconversation about...
The Download: what to expect from US Congress’s first AI meeting
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. What to know about Congress's inaugural AI meeting The US Congress is heading back into session, and they're hitting the ground running on AI. We're going to be hearing a lot about various...
What to know about Congress’s inaugural AI meeting
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. The US Congress is heading back into session, and they are hitting the ground running on AI. We're going to be hearing a lot about...
The Download: combating covid, and the challenges of governing AI
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. What to know about this autumn's covid vaccines Many people have started testing positive for covid recently. Hospitalizations for the disease in the US rose nearly 16% during the third week of August,...
What to know about this autumn’s covid vaccines
This article first appeared inTheCheckup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here. Last week I came down with some kind of bug. So I got to play one of my least favorite games: Covid or Not Covid?" In my case,...
The Download: promising new batteries, and how to regulate AI
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost The news: One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid has just received a nearly...
How water could make safer batteries
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I'd be willing to bet that you probably haven't spent much time thinking about the liquid that sloshes around inside batteries. But this liquid-called the electrolyte-is one of their key ingredients, and...
Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost
One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid just got a nearly $400 million loan from the US Department of Energy. Eos Energy makes zinc-halide batteries, which the firm hopes could one day be used to store renewable energy at a lower cost than is possible with existing lithium-ion batteries....
The Download: how to talk to kids about AI, and China’s emotional chatbots
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say. In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in artificial intelligence, thanks...
Chinese AI chatbots want to be your emotional support
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review's newsletter about technology developments in China.Sign upto receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Chinese ChatGPT-like bots are having a moment right now. As I reported last week, Baidu became the first Chinese tech company to roll out its large language model-called Ernie Bot-to the...
You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say.
In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in artificial intelligence, thanks to the wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. In a knee-jerk reaction, some schools, such as the New York City public schools, banned the technology-only to cancel the ban months later. Now that many adults have caught up with...
The Download: the climate tech companies to watch, and mysterious AI models
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: MIT Technology Review's 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch For decades, MIT Technology Review has published annual lists highlighting the advances redefining what technology can do and the brightest minds pushing...
We know remarkably little about how AI language models work
AI language models are not humans, and yet we evaluate them as if they were, using tests like the bar exam or the United States Medical Licensing Examination. The models tend to do really well in these exams, probably because examples of such exams are abundant in the models' training data. As my colleague Will...
Coming soon: MIT Technology Review’s 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
For decades, MIT Technology Review has published annual lists highlighting the advances redefining what technology can do and the brightest minds pushing their fields forward. This year, we're launching a new list, recognizing companies making progress on one of society's most pressing challenges: climate change. MIT Technology Review's 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch will...
The Download: how Yale University has prepared for ChatGPT, and schools’ AI reckoning
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year For many people, the start of September marks the real beginning of the year. Back-to-school season always feels like a reset moment. However,...
How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. For many people, the start of September marks the real beginning of the year. No fireworks, no resolutions, but fresh notebooks, stiff sneakers, and packed...
The Download: stem cell experiments, and coining “embryo tech”
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people's brains The news: In an important test for stem-cell medicine, biotech company BlueRock Therapeutics says implants of lab-made neurons introduced into the brains...
Here’s why I am coining the term “embryo tech”
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here. This week, I published a story about the results of a study on Parkinson's disease in which a biotech company transplanted dopamine-making neurons into people's brains....
A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains
In an important test for stem-cell medicine, a biotech company says implants of lab-made neurons introduced into the brains of 12 people with Parkinson's disease appear to be safe and may have reduced symptoms for some of them. The added cells should produce the neurotransmitter dopamine, a shortage of which is what produces the devastating...
The Download: China’s AI chatbots go public, and how climate change is affecting hurricanes
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Chinese ChatGPT alternatives just got approved for the general public The news: Baidu, one of China's leading artificial-intelligence companies, has announced it's opening up access to its ChatGPT-like large language model, Ernie Bot,...
How climate change can supercharge hurricanes
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. When I was growing up near the US Gulf Coast, it was more common for my school to get called off for a hurricane than for a snowstorm. So even though I...
Chinese ChatGPT alternatives just got approved for the general public
Baidu, one of China's leading artificial-intelligence companies, has announced it would open up access to its ChatGPT-like large language model, Ernie Bot, to the general public. It's been a long time coming. Launched in mid-March, Ernie Bot was the first Chinese ChatGPT rival. Since then, many Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, have followed...
Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what's coming next.You can read more here. It's now possible to link climate change to all kinds of extreme weather, from droughts to flooding to wildfires. Hurricanes are no exception-scientists have found that warming temperatures are causing...
Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were.
When Taylor Webb played around with GPT-3 in early 2022, he was blown away by what OpenAI's large language model appeared to be able to do. Here was a neural network trained only to predict the next word in a block of text-a jumped-up autocomplete. And yet it gave correct answers to many of the...
The involuntary criminals behind pig-butchering scams
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review's newsletter about technology developments in China.Sign upto receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There's something so visceral about the phrase pig-butchering scam." The first time I came across it was in my reporting a year ago, when I was looking into how strange LinkedIn...
Unlocking the value of supply chain data across industries
The product shortages and supply-chain delays of the global covid-19 pandemic are still fresh memories. Consumers and industry are concerned that the next geopolitical climate event may have a similar impact. Against a backdrop of evolving regulations, these conditions mean manufacturers want to be prepared against short supplies, concerned customers, and weakened margins. For supply...
The Download: watermarking AI images, and WorldCoin’s backlash
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Google DeepMind has launched a watermarking tool for AI-generated images The news: Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool which labels whether pictures have been generated with AI. The tool, called SynthID,...
Google DeepMind has launched a watermarking tool for AI-generated images
Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI. The tool, called SynthID, will initially be available only to users of Google's AI image generator Imagen, which is hosted on Google Cloud's machine learning platform Vertex. Users will be able to generate images using Imagen and then...
The Download: internet scams, and the ethics of brain implants
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How culture drives foul play on the internet, and how new upcode" can protect us From Bored Apes and Fancy Bears, to Shiba Inu coins, self-replicating viruses, and whales, the internet is crawling...
The tricky ethics of brain implants and informed consent
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here. This week I covered some exciting new research. Two teams reported that they used brain-computer interfaces to help people who had lost their ability to speak...
The Download: brain signals as speech, and faster-charging batteries
This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Brain implants helped create a digital avatar of a stroke survivor's face The news: A woman who lost her ability to speak after a stroke 18 years ago was able to replicate her...
Why getting more EVs on the road is all about charging
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The first time I took a road trip in an electric vehicle, I didn't mind the charging very much. I wasn't in a rush, and there was an In-N-Out Burger near the...
Brain implants helped create a digital avatar of a stroke survivor’s face
What do you think of my artificial voice?" asks a woman on a computer screen, her green eyes widening slightly. The image is clearly computerized, and the voice is halting, but it's still a remarkable moment. The image is a digital avatar of a person who lost her ability to speak after a stroke 18...
How new batteries could help your EV charge faster
Chinese battery giant CATL unveiled a new fast-charging battery last week-one that the company says can add up to 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) of range in 10 minutes. That's faster than virtually all EV charging today, and CATL claims the new cells, which it plans to produce commercially by the end of 2023, will...
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