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The ascent of the AI therapist
AI therapists could flatten humanity into patterns of prediction, and so sacrifice the intimate, individualized…
Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener
Water reclaimed at the factory’s sewage treatment plant is used in the facility’s restrooms.ZAKIR HOSSAIN…
This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile…
It’s debatable whether healthy people should be exposed to these risks, says Fernandez Lynch. The technology…
Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos
Only none of it is happening inside a body. These images were captured in a Beijing laboratory, inside a…
Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed…
Four bright spots in climate news in 2025
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt of battery storage…
The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place
Modern approaches, as demonstrated everywhere from California supermarket rooftops to Japan’s Expo 2025…
MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. Understanding AI’s energy use…
AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025
The key to R1’s success was distillation, a technique that makes AI models more efficient. It works by getting a…
How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism
Put your math hats on for a minute, and let’s take a look at what this beef from mid-October was about. It’s a…