Technology

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. Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways.  The world is increasingly powered by both tangible…

The US is on the brink of enacting rules for digital assets, with growing bipartisan momentum to modernize our financial system. But amid all the talk about innovation and global competitiveness, one issue has been glaringly absent: financial privacy. As we build the digital infrastructure of the 21st century, we need to talk about not…

July/August 25Guest edited by Edward Faulkner ’03 May/June 25Guest edited by Frank Rubin ’62 March/April 25Guest edited by Michael S. Branicky ’03 January/February 25Guest edited by Dan Katz ’03 November/December 24Guest edited by Edward Faulkner ’03 September/October 24Guest edited by Mark Douma ’63 and Frank Rubin ’62 July/August 24Puzzle Corner Editor Emeritus Allan Gottlieb ’67…

This past spring, we launched a brand-new manufacturing initiative—building on ideas that are as old as MIT. Since William Barton Rogers created a school to help accelerate America’s industrialization, manufacturing has been an essential part of our mission—a particularly MIT brand of manufacturing, informed and improved by scientific principles and advanced by the kind of…

Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of dollars in the last few months. Applications such as AI-powered notetaker Granola, and meeting tools Read AI and Fireflies AI have also received investor attention and backing. Continuing the trend, dictation app Wispr Flow […]