‘More Crucial Now Than Ever Before,’ The Biggest Franchise Trends of 2023, According to 17 Top Franchise Executives
From AI to a surge in chicken—here’s what needs to be on your franchise radar.
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,…
Where Startups Go Wrong When Working With AI — and How to Avoid Those Mistakes
AI doesn’t need to be revolutionary to be effective.
Shootz Restaurant CEO Harold Walters on Connecting with a Large, Organic Audience
Interview with Shootz CEO about the benefits of using the Ovation platform, switching to Toast from Clover, and the importance of digital media.
10 Spending Habits Impacting The Future of Your Retirement
Today’s actions determine our future. This is true for many areas of life. In particular, for financial reasons. Bad money habits make people unable to afford to retire. However, this…
9 Uncomfortable Truths About Money Only Rich People Understand
Who does not want to be rich? While it is true that money can be the solution to many of your problems, it is also true that money itself can…
Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness
Digantara, an Indian space tech startup that is working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) as it plans to kick off commercial space operations and satellite traffic management. This is notably the first space-tech investment by the […]
Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch
How climate vulnerability and the digital divide are linked
The Wi-Fi signal is weak outside the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia, a historic African-American section of Washington, DC. The abolitionist leader’s former home sits serenely atop a grassy hill in the otherwise bustling neighborhood. It is one of Monica Sanders’s final stops on an overcast December afternoon. Facing the property, she holds…
Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”
It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash? My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential risk, and why…
Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’
European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and non-commercially — in the region, and today the EU’s largest consumer group, the BEUC, weighed in with its own position: stop dragging your feet, and “launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI” now, it said. […]
Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’ by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Oracle launches its ‘sovereign cloud’ for EU customers
Oracle is formally launching its “EU Sovereign cloud” for customers in the European Union (EU) today, nearly a year after firs revealing plans for the initiative. So-called “digital sovereignty” has emerged as a critical issue for companies operating across the EU, driven by existing regulations such as GDPR as well as upcoming regulations such as […]
Oracle launches its ‘sovereign cloud’ for EU customers by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch