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A cheerful hullaballoo
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (229+ words) Alumni have been celebrating their MIT ties at Tech Night at Pops since 1898at times with "too much enthusiasm to suit the leader of the orchestra." Indeed, the eight-page program for that 1898 concert was crammed with advertisements for a wide range…...
Now we're cooking
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (656+ words) Sam Calisch, SM "14, Ph D "19, wants to make your kitchen greener'and bolster the grid at the same time. He"s starting with battery-powered electric ranges that plug into a standard outlet. Copper"s induction range draws power from a rechargeable…...
Puzzle Corner
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (155+ words) MIT Technology Review Send problems, solutions (by June 1), and comments to puzzlecorner@technologyreview. com. Editor emeritus Allan Gottlieb "67 launched Puzzle Corner in 1966. Find back issues through 2022 at cs. nyu. edu/~gottlieb/tr and more recent back issues at technologyreview. com…...
Pie day
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (157+ words) To celebrate Pi Day this year, Admissions Blogger Ellie Feng "28 organized a celebration of the Institute in pastry form, resulting in the baking of 30 MIT-themed pies. Images courtesy of Ellie Feng '28 and MIT Admissions Office Find Feng"s Pie Day…...
Agent orchestration
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (281+ words) The assembly line upended manufacturing last century'could teams of agents do the same for white-collar work? Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock When people say AI will speed up drug development or fear that it will bring about mass…...
Roundtables: Unveiling The 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
5+ hour, 23+ min ago (90+ words) Listen to the session or watch below Speakers: Grace Huckins, AI reporter, hosted this session as Amy Nordrum and Niall Firth, executive editors, unveiled the list onstage. Recorded on April 21, 2026 An exclusive conversation with Open AI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki,…...
Google News
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (11+ words) How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US'MIT Technology Review...
The era of AI malaise
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (1045+ words) AI is everywhere, all at once. How does that make you feel? That March, everything was happening quickly, but it hadn't quite happened yet. We knew the world was about to change, but we did not know how. We lacked…...
China's open-source bet
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (304+ words) The country's top AI labs are undercutting US competitors and winning over developers by making their best models free. Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce behind an API, and charge for every drop. China's…...
Artificial scientists
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (153+ words) AI has already proved itself a valuable scientific tool. Could it take on a more central role in the research process? Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock, Public Domain AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery…...