On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building ...

Our 2026 Innovators Under 35 list will be out soon. Here’s what we looked for as we sifted through 550 nominations from ...

Senior reporter Eileen Guo has been following an idea that moved from the fringes of the right-wing Internet to drive Trump policy.

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

Hyperscale data centers are now powering AI models with a revolutionary architecture—at a staggering energy cost. In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed ...

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...

A new field of science is using genetic sequencing to predict what kind of person an embryo might become. Some parents turn to these tests to avoid devastating genetic disorders, while a much smaller ...

At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era.

Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under ...

Jeff Dean is leaving to start a new AI company After 27 years at Google, the company’s former chief scientist is launching ...