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News•Jan 6, 2026
Listening to Battery Failure
MIT engineers have demonstrated that the faint sounds emitted by lithium‑ion batteries can be decoded to reveal degradation and impending failure. By synchronizing acoustic recordings with electrochemical testing, the team identified distinct signatures for gas‑bubble formation and material fracturing. The approach works even in noisy environments and can flag dangerous gas generation before thermal runaway. This passive, nondestructive monitoring could be integrated into electric vehicles and grid‑scale storage to continuously assess battery health.
By MIT Technology Review
News•Jan 6, 2026
Europe’s Drone-Filled Vision for the Future of War
During NATO’s Hedgehog exercise in Estonia, Britain’s 4th Light Brigade demonstrated Project ASGARD, an AI‑driven "digital targeting web" that links drones, sensors and shooters in under a minute. The system, built in four months, lets operators select strike options on...
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News•Jan 5, 2026
The Overlooked Driver of Digital Transformation
Business leaders often focus on cloud, AI, and video when driving digital transformation, but audio quality is a critical, overlooked enabler of effective hybrid collaboration. Research from Shure and IDC shows that poor sound diminishes speaker credibility, slows decision‑making, and...
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News•Dec 23, 2025
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI Slop
Generative‑video tools such as OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Veo and Runway’s Gen series have sparked an explosion of short AI‑generated clips, a phenomenon dubbed “AI slop.” The flood of low‑budget, often absurd videos—exemplified by viral trends like bouncing‑rabbit clips—now dominates TikTok,...
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News•Dec 19, 2025
The Download: China’s Dying EV Batteries, and Why AI Doomers Are Doubling Down
China’s electric‑vehicle surge has created a looming waste problem as the first generation of batteries reaches end‑of‑life, overwhelming a nascent recycling sector and spawning a gray market of unsafe disposals. Regulators and firms are scrambling to build capacity, but the...
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Deals•Dec 19, 2025
TikTok Signs Deal to Sell US Unit to US Investor Joint Venture
TikTok announced it has signed an agreement to sell its U.S. operations to a joint venture backed by American investors, including Oracle. The transaction is expected to close on January 22, 2026, and aims to keep the platform operating in...
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News•Dec 16, 2025
Creating Psychological Safety in the AI Era
Enterprise AI adoption hinges on psychological safety, enabling staff to experiment without fear of reprisal. A MIT Technology Review Insights survey of 500 leaders shows 83% believe safety boosts AI project success, yet only 39% rate their organizations as very...
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News•Dec 16, 2025
Why It’s Time to Reset Our Expectations for AI
The MIT Technology Review’s new "Hype Correction" series urges a reset of AI expectations after years of overstated promises. It highlights the gap between lofty claims—solving climate change, achieving human‑level intelligence, eliminating jobs—and the current reality of limited, sometimes flawed,...
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News•Dec 15, 2025
AI Might Not Be Coming for Lawyers’ Jobs Anytime Soon
Law firms are rapidly integrating generative AI tools for document review and contract drafting, but the technology still falls short on complex legal reasoning. Recent benchmarks reveal large language models scoring under 40% on difficult legal tasks and frequently hallucinating...
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News•Dec 12, 2025
The Download: Expanded Carrier Screening, and How Southeast Asia Plans to Get to Space
The article highlights three divergent trends shaping technology and geopolitics. Expanded carrier screening is rapidly scaling, with panels now covering up to 2,000 genes, sparking a competitive “arms race” among labs. In Southeast Asia, governments and private firms are accelerating...
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Deals•Dec 11, 2025
Stardust Solutions Secures $60M Funding Round to Advance Solar Geoengineering
Stardust Solutions, a solar geoengineering startup, announced a $60 million venture funding round, the largest ever for a geoengineering company. The capital will be used to scale its climate‑cooling technologies. The announcement appears in the December 11, 2025 edition of...
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News•Dec 9, 2025
The Download: A Peek at AI’s Future
The latest edition of MIT Technology Review’s "The Download" spotlights a heated debate over AI’s trajectory, contrasting forecasts that generative AI could eclipse the Industrial Revolution with a more measured view that adoption follows human‑speed cycles. It marks the final...
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Deals•Dec 8, 2025
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros for $83 Billion
Netflix announced plans to acquire Warner Bros in a deal valued at $83 billion, pending regulatory approval. The transaction would create one of the largest media mergers in Hollywood history.
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News•Dec 5, 2025
Harnessing Human-AI Collaboration for an AI Roadmap that Moves Beyond Pilots
Investment in AI remains at record highs, yet 75% of enterprises are still trapped in pilot projects. The MIT Technology Review Insights report, produced with Concentrix, argues that the missing link is effective human‑AI collaboration, which demands redesigning processes, data,...
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News•Dec 5, 2025
The Download: Political Chatbot Persuasion, and Gene Editing Adverts
New research shows politically biased AI chatbots can sway voters more effectively than traditional political ads, even though the most persuasive bots often spread falsehoods. The study highlights a looming shift toward AI‑driven persuasion that could reshape election tactics. Meanwhile,...
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News•Dec 4, 2025
AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better than Political Advertisements
Researchers published studies in Nature and Science showing that politically biased AI chatbots can sway voter opinions more effectively than traditional political ads. In U.S. tests, a single conversation moved Trump supporters 3.9 points toward Kamala Harris and Harris supporters...
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News•Dec 4, 2025
The Download: LLM Confessions, and Tapping Into Geothermal Hot Spots
OpenAI is piloting a new "confession" feature that prompts its large language models to explain and own up to any misbehavior, aiming to improve model transparency. Meanwhile, AI‑driven startup Zanskar announced the discovery of a blind geothermal system in western...
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News•Dec 4, 2025
How AI Is Uncovering Hidden Geothermal Energy Resources
Startup Zanskar announced the discovery of a blind geothermal system in Nevada, the first commercially viable find of its kind in over three decades. Using AI-driven models that integrate geological, satellite, and fault‑line data, the company pinpointed a reservoir reaching...
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Deals•Nov 7, 2025
Colossal Biosciences Acquires Pet‑Cloning Firm Viagen
Colossal Biosciences announced this week that it has acquired Viagen, a leading pet‑cloning company known for high‑profile projects. Viagen will continue operating under its current leadership, and the terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Deals•Nov 4, 2025
Stardust Raises $60M in Venture Round for Solar Geoengineering Technology
Stardust, an American‑Israeli solar geoengineering startup, announced a $60 million venture‑capital raise, the largest known round for a company in this sector. The funding will support development of its proprietary particle‑based cooling system slated for deployment by the early 2030s.
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Deals•Nov 3, 2025
Still Bright Secures $18.7M Seed Funding to Scale Clean Copper Extraction
Clean‑tech startup Still Bright announced it has closed an $18.7 million seed round to advance its water‑based copper purification technology. The funding will support pilot and demonstration‑scale reactors slated for 2027‑2028, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of traditional copper smelting.
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Deals•Nov 3, 2025
Biotech Entrepreneur Secures $30M to Launch Preventive, a Public‑Benefit Gene‑Editing Company
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur announced the formation of Preventive, a public‑benefit company focused on heritable genome editing, after raising $30 million. The funding will support research into safely creating genetically edited babies to prevent disease. The announcement was made in...
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Deals•Oct 31, 2025
Preventive Raises $30M to Study Heritable Genome Editing
West Coast biotech entrepreneur Lucas Harrington announced the formation of Preventive, a public‑benefit corporation, after securing $30 million from private funders. The capital, raised through Harrington’s venture firm SciFounders, will fund research into safe and responsible heritable genome editing.
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Found Energy Closed $12 Million Seed Round to Develop Aluminum‑powered Reactors
Found Energy, a Boston startup developing aluminum‑water reactors for zero‑carbon heat and hydrogen, closed a $12 million seed round last year to scale R&D and pilot larger 100 kW engines. The funding supported growth into a two‑floor R&D facility and...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
Science Corporation Acquires Pixium Vision's PRIMA Implant Program in Fire‑sale Deal
Science Corporation acquired the PRIMA vision implant program and assets from Pixium Vision, gaining advanced retinal‑implant technology now in advanced testing. The purchase gives Science rapid market access for an artificial‑vision chip that has enabled some patients to read and...
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