The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators
The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed,…

The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid
The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years,…

The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes
The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is…

The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel
The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…

The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…

The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI says its agents have solved one of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that would…

The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year
The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology look like? Our latest Innovators Under 35 list offers a glimpse. Every year,…

The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents
The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a valuable source of zero-carbon fuel. The hunt has…

The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…