Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals
Brimstone is making strides on two industrial problems, reducing the emissions from cement and providing a way to…
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WaveSave and its portable rubber dam
As sea levels rise and flood risks worsen due to global warming, WaveSave’s easy-to-erect portable dam offers a…
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BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses
BasiGo aims to replace the tens of thousands of diesel-powered buses on sub-Saharan African roads with electric ones…
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Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries
Demand for energy storage is surging, with capacity expected to grow eightfold in the next decade. To meet that demand,…
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Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious…
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Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical…
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The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider…
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EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology,…
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Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster…
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The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth
This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I…
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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board…
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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with…
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How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of…
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The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the…
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The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,”…
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Making AI an asset, not an expense
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the…
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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox…
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The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index
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MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand…
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The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according…
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Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when…
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The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week
This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors,…
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A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to…
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The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had…
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The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the…
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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25…
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The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better…
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