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 The Download: the AI Edition

December 19, 2023
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. These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI The internet changed everything—how we work and play, how we spend time with friends and family, how we learn, how we consume, how…

3 Biotech Stock Buys to Boost and Supercharge Portfolios

December 19, 2023
The biotechnology industry is flourishing due to the recent breakthroughs in drug development, technological advancements, and strong governmental backing. Given this backdrop, promising biotech stocks Organogenesis Holdings (ORGO), Theratechnologies (THTX),…

 Four trends that changed AI in 2023

December 19, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This has been one of the craziest years in AI in a long time: endless product launches, boardroom coups, intense policy debates about AI doom, and a race to find the…

These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI

December 19, 2023
It was a stranger who first brought home for me how big this year’s vibe shift was going to be. As we waited for a stuck elevator together in March, she told me she had just used ChatGPT to help her write a report for her marketing job. She hated writing reports because she didn’t…

Clearlake and Insight reach $4.4B deal to take software maker Alteryx private

December 19, 2023

Alteryx, an Irvine, California-based software company developing data science and analytics products, today announced that it’s agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners in a deal worth $4.4 billion. Clearlake and Insight reportedly beat out Symphony Technology Group, another private equity firm, which Reuters reported several days ago […]

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Developing climate solutions with green software

December 18, 2023
After years of committing to sustainable practices in his personal life from recycling to using cloth-based diapers, Asim Hussain, currently the director of green software and ecosystems at Intel, began to ask questions about the practices in his work: software development. Developers often asked if their software was secure enough, fast enough, or cost-effective enough…

The Download: a microbiome gold rush, and Eric Schmidt’s election misinformation plan

December 18, 2023
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 hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush Over the last couple of decades, scientists have come to realize just how important the microbes that crawl all over us are…

Get ready to fight misinformation in 2024. Eric Schmidt has advice.

December 18, 2023
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. We’re already at that time of year when we start looking ahead to what’s coming in 2024. For Technocrat readers (and the rest of the…

The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush

December 18, 2023
We’re all teeming with microbes. We’ve got guts full of them, and they’re crawling all over our skin. These tiny, ancient life forms have evolved with us. And over the last couple of decades, scientists have come to realize just how important they are to our health and well-being. They help extract nutrients from our…

Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

December 16, 2023

Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. And also that crowdfunding isn’t always the best way to launch an innovative product.

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