Tag: science
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Wiener, elected to Pelosi's San Francisco seat, vows quick push for federal AI regulation
The California state senator, author of SB 1047 and SB 53, says he wants a seat on a congressional AI select committee and opposes broad federal preemption of state AI laws.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Data Center Backlash Is Rooted in Electricity Demands
MIT Technology Review reports from Virginia's Data Center Alley that opposition to AI data centers is driven more by electricity demands than by a broader culture war, as firms turn to onsite gas turbines.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Lubrizol Ties AI, Cloud to Faster Materials Research
MIT Technology Review reports Lubrizol is building a digital foundation linking data platforms and cloud infrastructure to speed R&D, with an executive saying AI supports rather than replaces scientific judgment.
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Media Monitor: Tech Stocks Shed Nearly $2.5 Trillion as AI Sell-Off Spreads; Democrats Target Big Tech
MIT Technology Review reports tech stocks lost almost $2.5 trillion in a Nasdaq plunge, Democrats preparing to haul tech CEOs before Congress, and a U.S. warning on cyber threats to refrigeration systems.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Tests Humanoid Robot Cleaning Service in San Francisco
MIT Technology Review reports on Tau Robotics, a San Francisco startup offering humanoid robot cleanings piloted remotely by humans, with $60 weekly or $100 one-time visits.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Senate Set to Vote on Sweeping Permitting Reform Bill
MIT Technology Review reports the Senate votes Nov. 9 on the 417-page BAAJA permitting reform bill, which backers say could speed energy projects but critics warn may boost fossil fuel emissions.
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Democrats Sweep Texas Statewide Races as Talarico and Hinojosa Win
The victories end a three-decade Republican streak in Texas and put the state's fast-growing AI data center market in question, with Democrats also taking the Texas House for the first time in 24 years.
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Democrats Win Control of Both Chambers of Congress in Midterm Wave
The new majorities are not seated until January 3, 2027, and President Donald Trump retains his veto in a divided government.
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MIT Technology Review Reports "Reverse Game Theory" Push to Keep AI Agents in Check
The outlet also reports President Trump's end-of-September order to rebrand AI as "Super Intelligence" is spreading slowly through government and becoming a political loyalty test.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Trump's "Super Intelligence" Rebrand Meets Uneven Adoption
MIT Technology Review reports that President Trump's executive order renaming artificial intelligence "Super Intelligence" has been unevenly adopted across government, media and tech, raising concerns about a political loyalty test.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports AI Coding Agents Drive Up Token Costs
MIT Technology Review reports that AI coding agents can consume 10 to 50 times more tokens than basic chat prompts, pushing companies to weigh metered costs against shipped software.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Record Binance Crypto Hack, Nvidia Spy Case and AI Pressure on Alphabet
MIT Technology Review's The Download reports Binance's $6.3 billion crypto hack, an alleged Chinese spy targeting Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Alphabet's $500 billion market value loss tied to AI.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports AI labs buying data from failed startups, FEC website hack before midterms
MIT Technology Review reports AI labs are buying data from shuttered startups to train models, and that hackers disrupted the Federal Election Commission's filing system a week before the midterms.
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Media Monitor: Anthropic Files for IPO as AI Costs, Safety Risks Dominate Tech News
MIT Technology Review reports Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus, Microsoft offered buyouts to about 60,000 workers, and solar is quietly overtaking nuclear as a global power source.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports solid-state transformers could ease grid strain
MIT Technology Review reports that solid-state transformers, still in development, could ease supply bottlenecks and power losses as electricity demand rises from EVs, data centers and solar.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Anthropic's IPO Filing and Its AI Narrative
MIT Technology Review reports Anthropic filed a 335-page IPO prospectus and questions whether the AI company's sweeping safety narrative can be trusted as it seeks outside investment.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review weighs six long-promised technologies, reports on mRNA cancer vaccine results and a first prime-editing patient
MIT Technology Review's The Download runs progress reports on six "impossible" technologies, and rounds up reports on a military dog startup, Starlink in Ukraine, mRNA cancer vaccine data and prime editing.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reflects on Elizabeth Holmes Film and the Limits of Scientific Scrutiny
MIT Technology Review says a new Elizabeth Holmes documentary renewed its concerns about how hard it is to verify scientific claims, even with peer review and careful reporting.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Highlights Vanguard Executive on Building AI Foundations in Regulated Industries
MIT Technology Review is reporting that a Vanguard AI executive will address how data, engineering, governance and operating models must converge to build scalable, trustworthy AI systems in regulated environments.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Permafrost Thaw Is a Growing Blind Spot in Climate Science
MIT Technology Review reports that thawing permafrost is largely missing from UN climate models, that wildfires are accelerating its loss, and that its carbon cycle is far more complicated than once thought.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Role of Operational Context in Enterprise AI
MIT Technology Review reports that Celonis chief scientist Devavrat Shah says enterprise AI agents need operational context to make sound business decisions, warning that acting without it risks costly errors.
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Astrolab's FLIP rover to run first large language models on the moon
The 480-kilogram rover, launching as early as November, carries an HPE computer meant to test whether AI can navigate and decide in real time on the lunar surface.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Traffic Deaths Remain a Leading Preventable Cause of Death
MIT Technology Review reports traffic crashes kill more than a million people worldwide each year, with proven fixes like lower speed limits slowed by funding and political will.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Progress, Limits in PFAS Cleanup Effort
MIT Technology Review reports scientists are advancing ways to trap and destroy PFAS "forever chemicals," but warns cleanup will fail unless new contamination is curbed.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports on Drugs Designed to Mimic Exercise Benefits
MIT Technology Review is reporting that researchers are working to develop medicines that mimic some benefits of exercise for people facing frailty, disability or chronic illness, though the work faces major hurdles.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports NASA Plans Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft by 2028
MIT Technology Review reports NASA aims to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, on an uncrewed Mars mission by late 2028, arriving in 2029.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Introduces New Print Editor, Previews "Impossible Ideas" Issue
MIT Technology Review's new print magazine editor introduces herself and outlines an issue devoted to "impossible ideas," from synthetic blood to decoding animal speech, in a letter to readers.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Highlights Alumnus's Push to Extract Rare Earth Metals from Mining Waste
MIT Technology Review profiles Tomás Villalón Jr. '14, cofounder of Phoenix Tailings, which uses an electrochemical process to pull rare earth metals from mining waste without toxins.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Profiles Alumna Building National Brain Injury Support Network
MIT Technology Review reports that alumna Alissa Totman, now a brain injury physician, founded Synapse, a nonprofit with chapters at 28 universities supporting people with brain injuries.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Profiles Astronomer Megan Donahue and Highlights AI Coverage
MIT Technology Review profiles Michigan State astronomer Megan Donahue, whose galaxy cluster research began at MIT, and spotlights stories questioning LLM reasoning and AI hype.
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