July 8, 2025

Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

Fusion energy holds the potential to shift a geopolitical landscape that is currently configured around fossil fuels. Harnessing fusion will deliver the energy resilience, security, and abundance needed for all modern industrial and service sectors. But these benefits will be controlled by the nation that leads in both developing the complex supply chains required and…

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Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI

May 13, 2024
The global race for computational power is well underway, fueled by a worldwide boom in artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s Sam Altman is seeking to raise as much as $7 trillion for a chipmaking venture. Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon are building AI chips of their own. The need for more computing horsepower to train and…

AI systems are getting better at tricking us

May 10, 2024
A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to do, by offering up untrue explanations for their behavior or concealing the truth from human users and misleading them to achieve a strategic end.  This issue highlights how difficult artificial intelligence is to control and the unpredictable ways in…

Microsoft is launching its mobile game store in July

May 10, 2024

Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store in July, the company announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Xbox president Sarah Bond shared that the company plans to bring its first-party portfolio, which includes titles like Candy Crush and Minecraft, to the mobile store at launch. Microsoft then plans to open up the […]

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The Download: mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown

May 10, 2024
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. Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain The news: A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google has created a 3D, nanoscale-resolution map of…

The burgeoning field of brain mapping

May 10, 2024
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.  The human brain is an engineering marvel: 86 billion neurons form some 100 trillion connections to create a network so complex that it is, ironically, mind boggling. This…

Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses

May 9, 2024

Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating “an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of […]

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The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown

May 9, 2024
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. Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life What’s new: Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures…