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Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of Jupiter’s moon.

Here's what needs to be done to make AI assistants truly helpful.

Plus: the polls have opened to decide America's next president

Plus: Telegram is a hotbed of election denial

Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals.

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.

The new tool puts OpenAI squarely in competition with the search giants, and will help fuel its next generation of AI agents

They might not make you beautiful, but research suggests exosomes might help us diagnose and treat diseases.

The game was created from clips and keyboard inputs alone, as a demo for real-time interactive video generation.

As AI becomes more prevalent, organizations need to leverage the power of scope, scale, speed, and human-AI collaboration for differentiation.

Plus: Bird flu has been found in a pig in the US for the first time

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is trying to bring a long-promised technology to reality.

Sure, there's too much red tape, but there is another reason why building anything is so expensive: The construction industry's "awful" productivity.

Plus: As the US election looms, social media platforms have given up moderating

Plus: Facebook is auto-generating militia group pages

The rhythms of life seems off. Can we restore a steady beat?

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.

To make AI accessible to everyone and train the next generation of AI leaders, more academic centers need to be created dedicated to collaborative research and development.

Plus: Strava is leaking the location of foreign leaders

The Oculus founder has pivoted from selling goggles to consumers, to selling them to the military

People are spending thousands of dollars on unproven exosome therapies for hair loss, skin aging, and acne, as well as more serious conditions like long covid and Alzheimer’s.

Equipment used to train and run generative AI models could produce up to 5 million tons of e-waste by 2030, a relatively small but significant fraction of the global total.

Plus: the US government has big plans for AI

What a floundering military goggle project reveals about where our experiences with the technology are headed next, according to the founder of Oculus.

The tool, called Tutor CoPilot, demonstrates how AI could enhance, rather than replace, educators’ work.

Plus: the US government has big plans for AI

A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on.

Enterprises must think holistically and consider the componentry and the delivery of technology systems.

This isn’t a problem to be fixed, but instead an opportunity to reassess what the AI industry really wants and expects from AI.

With its move to the US, the startup’s self-driving AI must now learn to drive on the right of the street.

Plus: Russian operatives are attempting to undermine the US Democrats online

Cleaning up emissions from our food system will require looking beyond the plate.

The company conducted a massive experiment on its watermarking tool SynthID’s usefulness by letting millions of Gemini users rank it.

Scientists build clever contraptions to study animal behavior like the hermit crab housing market.

Plus: Arm and Qualcomm are engaged in a war of words

Everything you need to know about the state of AI.

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade.

Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering?

Three books explore the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.

The latest issue of MIT Technology Review is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed more people.