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MIT Technology ReviewCenter7 hours ago

Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility

Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter10 days ago

China is dominating the world of climate and energy technology

China is the center of the climate and energy tech world. The country is home to the world’s largest electric grid, and it’s growing quickly because of massive clean power installations. We highlighted some of the companies contributing...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter3 days ago

The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation

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. Opinion: The climate case for AI has not been made —By Mary Nichols, distinguished counsel at the...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter2 days ago

The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes

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. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator,...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter2 days ago

Evolving metal extraction processes

The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter3 days ago

The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter3 days ago

Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI

As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter3 days ago

Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter7 days ago

The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts

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. Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput. Texas is the...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter6 days ago

I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.

I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter7 days ago

A new bill could change how the US builds energy infrastructure

A sweeping bit of legislation designed to cut red tape could speed up the buildout of energy infrastructure in the US. With the dust barely settled on this week’s momentous midterms, the Senate is set to vote on the Bipartisan American...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter8 days ago

Roundtables: Inside the Quest for Cognitive Immortality

Tuesday, November 17, 2026 In an effort to reach an elusive continuity of the self, some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going—even beyond death. Join science editor Mary Beth Griggs and senior editor...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter8 days ago

The Download: blended meat, restored sight, and the agentic web

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. These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat In the fall of 2025, Jeff...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter8 days ago

Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter9 days ago

The Download: controlling AI agents and “Super Intelligence” loyalty tests

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 “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check A new approach known as “reverse game...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter9 days ago

Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty test

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained just one...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter10 days ago

Raising the quality of insights in agentic analytics

In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter10 days ago

Stop counting tokens, start counting what ships

When a developer gives an AI agent a coding task, the agent does more than answer once. It plans, generates code, runs tests, and repeats the process to correct errors. A single task can use 10 to 50 times more tokens than a basic chat...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter10 days ago

The agentic web is here

In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter16 days ago

The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills

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. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter13 days ago

Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter14 days ago

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter14 days ago

Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot

Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully accounted for in our climate...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter15 days ago

Creating AI value with enterprise context

Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automation tools. Each one is sophisticated,...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter15 days ago

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control

MIT Technology ReviewCenter16 days ago

One thing you need to know about AI and energy

What’s one thing you should know about AI and energy? Sean James, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia, and Nidhal Jegham, a research engineer at Sustainable AI Group, shared their perspectives at EmTech Future. To hear more discussions...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter16 days ago

Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing

Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line after a changeover. The machine settings...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter16 days ago

How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for...

MIT Technology ReviewCenter17 days ago

Will the real Anthropic please stand up

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document...

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Breaking down the Democrats' big majorities after the blue wave

The results of the midterm tallies have set up a two-year power struggle between Trump's White House and the incoming Democratic Congress. A new Democratic majority in Congress could pressure the president to end the war in Iran....