Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them
Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.
Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change
The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still. Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out of fissures in the soil and…
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Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you. (With AI data, it won’t need to.)
Instagram leader Adam Mosseri says the company is not secretly listening to your conversations. At least, not through the microphone.
Citi Is Requiring AI Prompt Training for Hundreds of Thousands of Employees
The bank sent an internal memo to around 175,000 employees this week.
Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M
Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.
OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push
Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.
College Friends Started a Side Hustle With $50. It’s ‘So Fulfilling’ — and On Track for $500,000.
Presley Campbell and Alden Kramer followed their passion into business.
Better Tomorrow Ventures closes $140M, remains bullish on fintech
The six-year-old firm’s third fund is nearly the size of it previous fund raised during the fintech boom in early 2022.
Roundtables: Trump’s Impact on the Next Generation of Innovators
Every year, MIT Technology Review recognizes dozens of young researchers on our Innovators Under 35 list. We checked back in with recent honorees to see how they’re faring amid sweeping changes to science and technology policy within the US. Learn about the complex realities of what life has been like for those aiming to build their labs…
Anker offered to pay Eufy camera owners to share videos for training its AI
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
California’s new AI safety law shows regulation and innovation don’t have to clash
“Are bills like SB 53 the thing that will stop us from beating China? No,” said Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI. “I think it is just genuinely intellectually dishonest to say that that is the thing that will stop us in the race.”