December 23, 2025

Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the uterus and then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear.  This is implantation—the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only none of it is happening inside a…

Technology

Snapchat’s My AI goes rogue, posts to Stories, but Snap confirms it was just a glitch

August 16, 2023
Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting. “My Snapchat AI posted […]

Katie Haun will discuss the future of crypto at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

August 16, 2023
Launching two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion is a thrilling accomplishment, especially for a woman in an industry that’s still male-dominated. It’s decidedly less thrilling when, just a few months later, the bottom of the fund’s target market doesn’t just drop, but also nearly disintegrates. How do you move forward? We’re excited to learn the […]

Opera’s iOS web browser gains an AI companion with Aria

August 16, 2023
Opera’s web browser app for iOS is getting an AI assistant. The company announced today that Opera for iOS will now include Aria, its browser AI product built in collaboration with OpenAI, integrated directly into the web browser, and free for all users. The AI solution had previously launched on Opera for desktop and Opera […]

Caden lands $15M to let users monetize their personal data

August 16, 2023
As consumers become more privacy aware, an increasing number of startups are emerging to — in line with the trend — enable people to monetize their data. Datacy, for example, lets users collect their browsing data, aggregate it with data from others and then sell it to the highest bidder. Pogo and Tapestri, similarly, grant […]

Meet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI applications

August 16, 2023
Vector databases are the unsung heroes of the modern AI movement, storing unstructured data such as images, videos and text to enable people and systems to search uncategorized content. They are particularly integral to large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT), owing in large part to the databases’ ability to power real-time […]

Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America

August 16, 2023
The onshoring of battery manufacturing for EVs started as a trickle during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s a tsunami. In 2019, just two battery factories were operating in the United States with another two under construction. Today, there are about 30 battery factories either planned, under construction or operational in the country. U.S. President Joe […]

China’s car companies are turning into tech companies

August 16, 2023
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This year, car buyers in China are constantly bombarded with claims about how advanced Navigation on Autopilot (NOA) systems are coming to their city. These software systems are not quite fully…

How a half-trillion dollars is transforming climate technology

August 16, 2023
A half-trillion dollars is starting to work its way through the US economy, remaking climate technology along the way.  One year ago, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, marking the most significant action on climate change to date from the federal government. The legislation set aside hundreds of billions of dollars to support…