Its First Year, This Startup Struggled to Get 75 Clients. Five Years Later, They Have 18,000. Here’s How They Did It.
Financial planning startup Facet knew they were targeting a huge untapped market. But getting clients wasn’t as easy as they hoped.
MIT Technology Review is a 2026 ASME finalist in reporting
The American Society of Magazine Editors has named MIT Technology Review as a finalist for a 2026 National Magazine Award in the reporting category. The shortlisted story—“We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard”—is part of the publication’s Power Hungry package on AI’s energy burden. AI is often described…
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Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review
For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature — scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic — take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team. But it doesn’t […]
The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth
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. You can now have a voice conversation with ChatGPT The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its flagship large language model in a major update. You can have a…
Now you can chat with ChatGPT using your voice
In one of the biggest updates to ChatGPT yet, OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its viral app. First, ChatGPT now has a voice. Choose from one of five lifelike synthetic voices and you can have a conversation with the chatbot as if you were making a call, with it responding to…
There’s a Scientific Reason You Can’t Stop Thinking About Unfinished Tasks. Learning to Harness That Energy Will Make You More Productive.
Why unfinished work captures our attention more than finished tasks, and how to leverage that psychological tendency for both personal and professional betterment.
Here’s How Critical Thinkers Unlock Unimaginable Success
On this episode of “The Jeff Fenster Show,” Contrarian Thinking founder Codie Sanchez breaks down risk-taking, deal-making, and the personal mental processes that will help you achieve your goals.
3 Biotech Stocks Offering Potential for Gains
Solid foothold of personalized medicine, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, favorable government initiatives, and rapid digital transformation are opening new avenues for biotech companies. Thus, it could be wise to…
Notetaking app Goodnotes invests $1.9M in digital stationary company WeBudding
Weeks after launching a digital stationary store within the app, notetaking company Goodnotes said today it has invested $1.9 million into South Korea-based digital stationary company WeBudding. WeBudding was founded by Donghwan Shin, Donggyun Ko, and Chaeyoung Lee in 2018. The trio started by selling physical paper notebooks catered towards university students, but eventually, they […]
An inside look at Congress’s first AI regulation forum
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Recently, I wrote a quick guide about what we might expect at Congress’s first AI Insight Forum. Well, now that meeting has happened, and we…