Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs
A majority of consumers say they’re worried about data centers driving up electricity costs. Is the industry prepared for a possible backlash?
MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…
AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams
AI researchers at Andon Labs embedded various LLMs in a vacuum robot to test how ready they were to be embodied. And hilarity ensued.
How to Drop Your Ego and Watch Your Business Build a Lasting Legacy
What if the real turning point in leadership isn’t when you raise your hand with the answer, but when you admit you don’t have one?
Pay Once, Run Human Resources Operations for Good
Armano HR handles time tracking, performance reviews, e-sign, and more.
What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about AOL’s acquirer
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
7 AI Tools That Run a One-Person Business in 2025 — No Staff, No Code.
You’re not falling behind because you’re lazy — you’re outnumbered.
How Entrepreneurs Can Harness AI to Build Trust, Loyalty and Scalable Growth Without Losing the Human Touch
Learn how entrepreneurs can leverage AI ethically to turn customer data into trust, loyalty and scalable growth, without losing the human touch.
This 29-Year-Old Founder Took a $150,000 Pay Cut to Become CEO of His Own Startup. Here’s Why He Says It Was Worth It.
Alex Blackwood was working as a real estate investing associate at Goldman Sachs. Here’s why he decided to start a business instead — despite the pay cut.
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta
Bluesky is looking to a new signal — “dislikes” — to personalize users’ feeds.
Here’s the latest company planning for gene-edited babies
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology. The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” in which the DNA of embryos would be…