Achieving a sustainable future for AI
We are witnessing a historic, global paradigm shift driven by dramatic improvements in AI. As…
This app is helping workers reclaim millions in lost wages
As Rodrigo Camarena sees it, you can hail a car and order food on your…
Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power,…
How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions
Next year, New Belgium Brewing will swap out one of the four natural-gas-powered boilers at…
The Download: cutting beer’s carbon emissions, and reclaiming lost wages
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying…
“Forest bathing” might work in virtual reality too
The Japanese concept of “forest bathing,” or shinrin-yoku (森林浴), has long been acclaimed for its…
The Download: advertising on junk AI websites, and forest bathing in VR
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI
A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that…
Robotaxis are here. It’s time to decide what to do about them
In some San Francisco neighborhoods, at certain hours of the night, it seems as if…