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The Download: using AI to discover “zero day” vulnerabilities, and Apple’s ICE app removal
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to di…
Oct 3, 2025, 12:10 PM
The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future
James O'Donnell, MIT Technology Review
On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team a…
Sep 30, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Download: AI to detect child abuse images, and what to expect from our 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI Generative AI has enabled the production of child s…
Sep 29, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal
Charlotte Jee, MIT Technology Review
Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses tryin…
Sep 26, 2025, 12:12 PM
Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One sm…
Sep 25, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump is pushing leucovorin as a new treatment for autism. What is it?
Cassandra Willyard, MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. At a press conference on Monday, President Trump announced that his administrati…
Sep 24, 2025, 11:56 AM
How to measure the returns to R&D spending
David Rotman, MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Given the draconian cuts to US federal funding for science, including the admini…
Sep 17, 2025, 9:00 AM
We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis
Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review
Note for readers: This newsletter discusses gun violence, a raw and tragic issue in America. It was already in progress on Wednesday when a school shooting occurred at Evergreen High School in Colorado and Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley Unive…
Sep 11, 2025, 4:57 PM
How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words
Eileen Guo, Amy Nordrum, MIT Technology Review
Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the world in our Innovators Under 35 list. We’ve just published the 2025 edition. This year, though, the context is pointedly different: The US…
Sep 8, 2025, 10:45 AM
How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy
James Temple, MIT Technology Review
On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed off the first practical solar panels at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, using sunlight to spin a toy Ferris wheel before a stunned crowd. The solar future looked bright. But in the race to c…
Sep 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike
Joshua A. Basseches, MIT Technology Review
The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflati…
Aug 19, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Download: Trump’s golden dome, and fueling AI with nuclear power
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies Within a week of his inaugurati…
Aug 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
Becky Ferreira, MIT Technology Review
In 1940, a fresh-faced Ronald Reagan starred as US Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft in Murder in the Air, an action film centered on a fictional “superweapon” that could stop enemy aircraft midflight. A mock newspaper in the movie hails it as the “greatest…
Aug 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”
The Editors, MIT Technology Review
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called…
Jul 30, 2025, 3:37 PM
The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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 nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort …
Jul 25, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: what’s next for AI agents, and how Trump protects US tech companies overseas
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. Navigating the rise of AI agents AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can n…
Jul 23, 2025, 12:10 PM
The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a techn…
Jul 17, 2025, 12:10 PM
Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
Grace Huckins, MIT Technology Review
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policies—Medicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But on…
Jul 9, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Debrief: Power and energy
Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review
It may sound bluntly obvious, but energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways. It brings revenue and enables manufacturing, data processing, transportation, and military might. Energy resources…
Jun 25, 2025, 9:00 AM
Is this the electric grid of the future?
Andrew Blum, MIT Technology Review
One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska, pounding the state capital of Lincoln with 60-mile-per-hour winds, driving sleet, and up to eight inches of snow. Lincoln Electric System, the local electric uti…
Jun 19, 2025, 10:00 AM
Inside the US power struggle over coal
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right. There are a lot of potential reasons to let coal continue its journey to the grave. Carbon emissions from coal plants are a m…
Jun 19, 2025, 10:00 AM
What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”?
Eileen Guo, MIT Technology Review
Back in February, I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called Smart Check, which was its attempt to create an effective, fair, and unbiased predictive algorithm to try to detect…
Jun 17, 2025, 8:49 AM
The Download: gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under Trump
Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review
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. Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have sl…
Jun 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Here’s what food and drug regulation might look like under the Trump administration
Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review
Earlier this week, two new leaders of the US Food and Drug Administration published a list of priorities for the agency. Both Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad are controversial figures in the science community. They were generally highly respected academics unti…
Jun 13, 2025, 9:00 AM