Chipmakers are betting that smaller, more specialized chips can extend the life of Moore’s Law. Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express Now Packaging. It may sound boring ...

I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

It’s a dramatic illustration of just how good AI models have gotten at hacking: In order to get into Hugging Face’s databases ...

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 ...

Even US manufacturers could feel the effects of higher prices. This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s "America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of US success in science and ...