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MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…
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‘Everyone Can Profit From It’: What Is DeepSeek? China’s ‘Cheap’ to Make AI Chatbot Climbs to the Top of Apple, Google U.S. App Stores
DeepSeek researchers claim it was developed for less than $6 million, a contrast to the $100 million it takes U.S. tech startups to create AI.
92% of Employees Multitask During Meetings — Here’s How to Turn Online Calls into Simple Emails
Too many online meetings is a common affliction these days, a digital plague that has infiltrated every corner of the modern workplace.
A Company Is Giving Away $10,000 Every Second During the Final 2 Minutes of the Super Bowl
Rewards app Fetch will distribute $1.2 million to 120 people in a first-of-its-kind livestream.
Jason Momoa is Still Playing Aquaman… Just Not On Screen — How the Movie Star is Making Waves Against Plastic Waste With Boomerang Water
Jason Momoa is using his celebrity influence to advance his passion for ocean conservation. He is partnering with Boomerang Water to relaunch his sustainable water brand, Mananalu, as a B2B on-site bottling system designed to eliminate single-use plastic waste and reduce reliance on water transportation.
I Co-Founded an App That Uses AI — Here’s Why AI Has Me Worried About My Child’s Future
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The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing
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 a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which…
Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent
On January 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical quantum computing is still 15 to 30 years away, at the same time suggesting those computers will need Nvidia GPUs in order to implement the necessary error correction. However, history shows that brilliant people are not immune to making mistakes.…
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