December 24, 2024

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…

Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT

February 21, 2024

In a press release written with help from ChatGPT, Match Group announced an enterprise agreement with the AI chatbot’s maker, OpenAI. The new agreement includes over 1,000 enterprise licenses for the dating app giant and home to Tinder, Match, OKCupid, Hinge, and others. The AI tech will be used to help Match Group employees with […]

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Reddit’s upcoming IPO could reward its power users

February 21, 2024

On today’s episode, we’re talking about Reddit’s upcoming IPO (again), along with some impressive raises for edtech startup Loora, Bioptimus and Dili.

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This YC alum just raised $31M to build the ‘TurboTax for construction permitting’

February 21, 2024

Anyone who has ever tried to build or renovate a house knows the pain of obtaining construction permits. Challenges in receiving permits not only add frustration, but also time and expense to any project. It’s no surprise then that the startup world has seen a flurry of startups focused on streamlining the permitting process. The […]

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Data at the center of business

February 21, 2024
With more than 5,000 branches across 48 states and 80 million customers, each with its own unique requirements to satisfy its customers’ financial needs, a clear data strategy is key for JPMorgan Chase. According to Mark Birkhead, firm-wide chief data officer at JPMorgan Chase, data analytics is the oxygen that breathes life into the firm…

6 Time-Saving Features on Hiring Platforms

February 21, 2024
Hiring managers and recruiters are constantly seeking ways to streamline their processes and save valuable time. Fortunately, modern hiring platforms come equipped with a range of innovative features designed to simplify the recruitment journey.

Faddom raises $12M to help companies map IT infrastructure wherever it lives

February 21, 2024

When IT was responsible for servers onsite, understanding what you owned and where it lived was not a big problem. For most, it was physical machines in a closet or server room, but as infrastructure became virtualized and moved to the cloud, figuring out the lay of your infrastructure land became more difficult. Faddom, an […]

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Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety

February 21, 2024

If you ask Gemini, Google’s flagship GenAI model, to write deceptive content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it will, given the right prompt. Ask about a future Super Bowl game and it’ll invent a play-by-play. Or ask about the Titan submersible implosion and it’ll serve up disinformation, complete with convincing-looking but untrue citations. It’s […]

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Microservices orchestration platform Orkes raises $20M Series A

February 21, 2024

Back in 2016, Netflix open-sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies that rely on it, the creators of Conductor had previously left the company to launch Orkes, a startup that provides an enterprise-grade microservices platform based on the open-source project. […]

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