‘Simply Not True’: Elon Musk Denies Report of $45 Million Monthly Donation to Pro-Trump Super PAC
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the billionaire was donating to America PAC.
Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers. We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden…
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage
AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being used to pump out web pages filled with junk content, that process is in danger of being undermined. New research published in Nature shows that the quality of the model’s output gradually degrades when AI trains…
Want to Start a Business? Skip the MBA, Says Bestselling Author
Entrepreneur Josh Kaufman says that the average person with an idea can go from working a job to earning $10,000 a month running their own business — no MBA required.
McDonald’s is Extending its $5 Meal Deal in Most of the U.S. — Get the Details Here
The $5 deal, created in response to a demand for value from inflation-strapped consumers, was initially planned for a four-week run.
Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph Reveals the Magic Formula for Grabbing an Investor’s Attention
On this episode of “Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch,” tech entrepreneurs must explain complex solutions in 60 seconds or less.
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The Download: Chinese LLMs, and transforming heavy-duty trucking
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. How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world Hundreds of Chinese large language models have been released since the government started permitting AI companies to open up their models for the general…
The Best Strategy to Stand Out in Today’s Competitive Market May Not Be What You Think
How do you gain and sustain a competitive advantage in an overcrowded market?
How battery-powered trailers could transform trucking
Semi-trucks move over 11 billion tons of freight in the US each year, spewing greenhouse-gas emissions and other pollutants along the highways as they go. Shifting these and other heavy-duty trucks to zero-emissions technologies will be a challenge—even more so than for smaller vehicles, since larger vehicles require bigger batteries and more powerful chargers. One…
Why Chinese companies are betting on open-source AI
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. I’ve talked a lot about Chinese large language models in this newsletter, and I’ve managed to try out quite a few of them in the past year. But many people, especially those…