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China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership
Ren Zhengfei, the reclusive founder and CEO of China’s embattled tech giant, Huawei, is defiant about American efforts to impede his company…
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Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year. Stephen Quake’s daughter, Zoe, was one of them: she arrived via emergency C-section after…
Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists
There are a lot of worries today about technology’s harmful effects. How do you retain your famous optimism about it? This story…
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates
I was honored when MIT Technology Review invited me to be the first guest curator of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Narrowing down…
The race to make a lab-grown steak
In 2013, the world’s first burger from a lab was cooked in butter and eaten at a glitzy press conference. The burger…
Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it
Amy Webb, futurist, NYU professor, and award-winning author, has spent much of the last decade researching, discussing, and meeting with people and…
China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance cognition and…
The first privately funded trip to the moon is about to launch
Update: The SpaceIL lander was launched and deployed successfully on February 21, at 8:45 p.m. aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It’s expected…
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose. So convincing,…
AI is reinventing the way we invent
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Never mind killer robots—here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019
Last year a string of controversies revealed a darker (and dumber) side to artificial intelligence.
Seven New Year’s resolutions for Big Tech in 2019
2018 was a no good, very bad year for Silicon Valley. Here’s some of the things tech giants should commit to do…
All the reasons 2018 was a breakout year for DNA data
Gene information on millions of people is revolutionizing how we predict disease, catch criminals, and find new drugs.
The day I tasted climate change
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