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The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns
Thomas Macaulay, 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. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitt…
May 28, 2026, 12:10 PM
The Download: online safety’s future and climate tech’s big pivot
Thomas Macaulay, 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 researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety For months, the Trump administration…
May 21, 2026, 12:10 PM
Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
We’re over a year into the second Trump administration here in the US, and support for climate causes is weak. But climate tech companies are finding ways to survive and even thrive in this new environment, including by focusing on potential benefits outside …
May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM
Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.
Michelle Kim, MIT Technology Review
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired ba…
May 15, 2026, 11:39 PM
The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers
Thomas Macaulay, 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. The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn When Jennifer got a research job in 2023, she ran her new professiona…
May 14, 2026, 12:10 PM
Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining
Hannah Richter, MIT Technology Review
Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical miles of the Pacific seafloor in search of critical mineral d…
May 1, 2026, 10:00 AM
Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science
Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review
This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9 billion. The foundation’s efforts were overseen by a board…
May 1, 2026, 9:00 AM
The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models
Thomas Macaulay, 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. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awa…
Apr 27, 2026, 12:10 PM
The Download: introducing the Nature issue
Thomas Macaulay, 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. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we usually mean something untouched by humans. But little of t…
Apr 23, 2026, 12:10 PM
The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
Thomas Macaulay, 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. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell ami…
Apr 22, 2026, 12:10 PM
Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?
Boyce Upholt, MIT Technology Review
If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of fog. Forty miles to the west, the industrial sprawl of Hous…
Apr 20, 2026, 10:00 AM
What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma
Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review
Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox facing Moderna, the covid-19 shot maker whose plans for next-ge…
Apr 10, 2026, 2:04 PM
The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war
Thomas Macaulay, 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. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and…
Mar 31, 2026, 12:10 PM
Why this battery company is pivoting to AI
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of the reality,” he says. Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a Massachusetts-based battery company. It…
Mar 25, 2026, 3:02 PM
The Download: 10 things that matter in AI, plus Anthropic’s plan to sue the Pentagon
Thomas Macaulay, 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. Coming soon: our 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now For years, MIT Technology Review’s newsroom has been ahead of the …
Mar 6, 2026, 1:10 PM
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
Michelle Kim, MIT Technology Review
In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abiliti…
Feb 10, 2026, 5:00 PM
Why chatbots are starting to check your age
James O'Donnell, MIT Technology Review
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to growing co…
Jan 26, 2026, 5:05 PM
The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation
Charlotte Jee, 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. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step fo…
Jan 23, 2026, 1:07 PM
The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship
Charlotte Jee, 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. What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate Just before Christmas the Trump administration dramati…
Jan 19, 2026, 1:39 PM
What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate
Eileen Guo, MIT Technology Review
It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the cou…
Jan 19, 2026, 10:00 AM
The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash
Charlotte Jee, 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 next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint The popularity of commercial nuclear react…
Jan 14, 2026, 1:10 PM
The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future
Charlotte Jee, 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. Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid For decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered our phon…
Jan 13, 2026, 1:00 PM
What new legal challenges mean for the future of US offshore wind
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
For offshore wind power in the US, the new year is bringing new legal battles. On December 22, the Trump administration announced it would pause the leases of five wind farms currently under construction off the US East Coast. Developers were ordered to stop …
Jan 8, 2026, 11:00 AM
Powering up (and saving) the planet
Ken Shulman, MIT Technology Review
Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps in first grade,” she says. “But I remember we weren’t allowed to turn our sprinklers on. And everyone in…
Jan 6, 2026, 10:00 PM
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