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…

BMW security lapse exposed sensitive company information, researcher finds

February 14, 2024

A misconfigured cloud storage server belonging to automotive giant BMW exposed sensitive company information, including private keys and internal data, TechCrunch has learned. Can Yoleri, a security researcher at threat intelligence company SOCRadar, told TechCrunch that he discovered the exposed BMW cloud storage server while routinely scanning the internet. Yoleri said the exposed Microsoft Azure-hosted […]

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Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30M

February 14, 2024

It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to have developed the infrastructure to give developers at large enterprises the ability to build “robust” generative conversational AI assistants so that those interactions feel more personal […]

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Equity: Bret Taylor has a brand new AI startup

February 14, 2024

This is our Wednesday show, where we dig into the critical startup and venture capital stories from the week thus far.

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These 32 robotics companies are hiring

February 14, 2024

There’s no such thing as a future-proof career. This is something I consider nearly any time I write about advances in generative AI. Is there a sense in which I’m contributing to the propagation of my eventual replacement? Probably! But don’t worry, that’s a me problem. As for you, my roboticist friend, you’ll be just […]

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Apple’s Vision Pro now has over 1,000 apps specifically designed for the new device

February 14, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg may be laughing off the competition in the AR/VR headset market, but Apple’s Vision Pro is gaining traction — with developers, at least. On Tuesday, Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Greg Joswiak, announced on X that the company’s “spatial computing” headset now has over 1,000 apps designed specifically to take advantage […]

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