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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
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. An AI…
MIT Tech Review · 5d agoAn AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan
Mind-reading, but make it science: Researchers at the Weizmann Institute have built an AI tool that reconstructs images people are looking at—just…
MIT Tech Review · 5d ago
How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to…
MIT Tech Review · 5d agoThe Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
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. “We’re not…
MIT Tech Review · 6d ago“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Still putting out fires: Two months after OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face, new incidents keep surfacing—including a breach of Australia's national…
MIT Tech Review · 6d ago
The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
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. Coming…
MIT Tech Review · 29 Sept 2026Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that…
MIT Tech Review · 29 Sept 2026