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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. In the US and elsewhere, 2023 was a blockbuster year for artificial intelligence and AI regulation, and this next year is guaranteed to bring even…

WHO Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI WHEN Now When OpenAI launched a free web app called ChatGPT in November 2022, nobody knew what was coming. But that low-key release changed everything. By January, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing web app ever, offering anyone with a browser access to one of the most powerful neural networks ever…

WHO CRISPR Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Precision BioSciences, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN Now The first gene-editing cure has arrived. Grateful patients are calling it “life changing.” It was only 11 years ago that scientists first developed the potent DNA-snipping technology called CRISPR. Now they’ve brought CRISPR out of the lab and into real medicine with a treatment…

WHO Daikin, Mitsubishi, Viessmann WHEN Now We’ve entered the era of the heat pump.  Heat pumps are appliances that can cool and heat spaces using electricity. Many buildings today are still heated with fossil fuels, specifically natural gas. Switching to electric heat pumps that run on renewable energy could help homes, offices, and even manufacturing…

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. The race to produce rare earth materials Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. And access to rare earth elements,…

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. This week I came across a paper that uses AI in a way that I hadn’t heard of before. Researchers developed a smartphone app that can…

Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. Access to rare earth elements, key ingredients in many of these technologies, will partly determine which countries will meet their goals for lowering emissions or increasing the proportion of electricity generated from non-fossil-fuel sources. But…

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. In 2023, AI policy and regulation went from a niche, nerdy topic to front-page news. This is partly thanks to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which helped AI…

Clicks Technology is today unveiling the Clicks creator keyboard for the iPhone. It’s less “the future” than an unpleasant glance back to a world we thought we had left behind, in a nostalgia-tinged flashback to the days of BlackBerry and Nokia, where pressing physical buttons was the pinnacle of mobile communication. “We use keyboards on […]

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At the end of 2022, like many, I made some predictions about what 2023 would bring to the technology investing ecosystem. Namely, the Fed would tame inflation, and the fundraising market would thaw, but overall, claiming that 2023 would be the first year of a “new normal” era for the markets and that machine learning […]

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