A Lifetime Subscription to This AI-Powered Automation Tool Is Only $50 for Presidents’ Day
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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…
Dominate the Market With 3 Biotech Stocks
The biotech industry’s growth prospects look promising due to considerable investments in research and development (R&D), an innovative drugs pipeline, government initiatives, the growing popularity of personalized medicine, drug approvals,…
The Download: impressive new AI capabilities
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. OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called Sora that can take a short text description and turn it into a…
Elon Musk’s Tesla Ownership Has Soared to 20.5% and Is Now Worth More Than $120 Billion, New Filing Shows
The SEC filing shows that Musk is not far from reaching the 25% stake he desires.
India’s central bank extends some Paytm Payments Bank restrictions deadline to March 15
India’s central bank extended the deadline for some of the business restrictions it’s imposing on Paytm’s Payments Bank to March 15 from February 29, giving the Indian financial services firm an additional 15 days to comply with the rules but squashing chances of any major concessions.
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Clubhouse’s new feature turns your texts into custom voice messages
Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, announced today that users can now text their friends and they’ll hear those texts in the sender’s custom voice. In a bid to stay relevant amid user drop-off, Clubhouse debuted group voice chats where members can send asynchronous voice messages to each other, and they would appear in a […]
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Anthropic takes steps to prevent election misinformation
Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect those users to “authoritative” sources of voting information. Called Prompt Shield, the technology, which relies on a combination of AI detection models and rules, shows […]
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How bacteria-fighting viruses could go mainstream
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Lynn Cole had a blood infection she couldn’t shake. For years, she was in and out of the hospital. Each time antibiotics would force the infection…
Pacifico Biolabs emerges from stealth with fermentation process for alternative seafood
The company’s fermentation process involves the cultivation of multiple microorganisms, including mycelium, to provide nutrition, flavor and texture.
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India may block Proton Mail
Proton, the Swiss privacy-focused software maker, says it has received a notice of a “possible block” of Proton Mail in India after the service was used in sending bomb threats to schools in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In a statement, a Proton spokesperson told Indian daily Hindustan Times that the firm condemns […]
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