Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.
MIT Technology Reviewby Casey Crownhart3 Sept 2026
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices.
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top 80%Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise
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Sponsored In partnership withNiCE As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data...
Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
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Sponsored In partnership withSAP As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset.
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
MIT Technology Reviewby Michelle Kim1 Sept 2026
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.
Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
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Sponsored In partnership withInfosys For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle.
The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay1 Sept 2026
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How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops
MIT Technology Reviewby Casey Crownhart1 Sept 2026
Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help.
Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
MIT Technology Reviewby Grace Huckins31 Aug 2026
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The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay28 Aug 2026
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.
How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
MIT Technology Reviewby Eshan Raul28 Aug 2026
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system.
A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
MIT Technology Reviewby Antonio Regalado27 Aug 2026
I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation...
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
MIT Technology Reviewby Thomas Macaulay27 Aug 2026
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.
Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
MIT Technology Reviewby Casey Crownhart27 Aug 2026
EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the...
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
MIT Technology Reviewby Grace Huckins26 Aug 2026
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released...
Raised on AI
MIT Technology Reviewby Mat Honan26 Aug 2026
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms.
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
MIT Technology Reviewby Mat Honan26 Aug 2026
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue.
MIT tech powered the Artemis II livestreams
MIT Technology Reviewby Ariana Gaines25 Aug 2026
During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate, sending grainy, low-quality images and videos to Earth.
Your brain on AI
MIT Technology Reviewby Adam Conner-Simons25 Aug 2026
Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy.
Seeing through murky waters
MIT Technology Reviewby Jennifer Chu25 Aug 2026
When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras struggle to see through.
Taking your temperature from the inside
MIT Technology Reviewby Anne Trafton25 Aug 2026
Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to swallow and risk...