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  • The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

    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 US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field hospital was shot down in Iraq, killing all seven…

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

    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. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish a small…

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

    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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

    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. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch.

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries

    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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds.

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch

    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. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of the most promising climate tech companies in the world.

    MIT Technology Review4 min read
  • The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don’t reason

    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. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition.

    MIT Technology Review5 min read
  • The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

    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. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your…

    MIT Technology Review5 min read
  • The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

    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. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the…

    MIT Technology Review6 min read
  • The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

    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 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and Big Tech…

    MIT Technology Review5 min read
  • The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

    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 Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie…

    MIT Technology Review6 min read

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