In the past decade, China has seen an EV boom, thanks in part to government support. Buying an electric car has gone from a novel decision to a routine ...

Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the ...

“At some point you’ve got to wonder whether the bug is a feature.” —Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell ...

Every year, MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year. For 2025, we chose Sneha Goenka, who ...

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six ...

—James O'Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: ...

Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of ...

The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers ...

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included ...

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