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Our 2026 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies will come out on January 12. In the meantime, we wanted to share some of the technologies from this year’s reject pile, as a window into our decision-making process.
4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list
We’ll keep following these developments, but this just wasn’t their year. Here’s why.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Our 2026 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies will come out on January 12. In the meantime, we wanted to share some of the technologies from this year’s reject pile, as a window into our decision-making process.
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They’ve cost hundreds of billions of dollars so far, and require an incredible amount of energy to operate. @technologyreview.com reporter @caseycrownhart.bsky.social shares the latest news on the boom in data centers to power AI.
As Companies Build Data Centers For AI, Communities Push Back
A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting utility hikes.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
They’ve cost hundreds of billions of dollars so far, and require an incredible amount of energy to operate. @technologyreview.com reporter @caseycrownhart.bsky.social shares the latest news on the boom in data centers to power AI.
Opinion: AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin
AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Opinion: AI is eminently capable of political persuasion and could automate it at a mass scale. We are not prepared.
A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.
The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination
A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.
A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation.
AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation.
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I am preparing MIT Technology Review's infamous list of "worst" technologies of the year.
What are 2025's biggest failures, set backs, and misfires but which also hold useful lessons about technology?
I think Cybertruck has to be on the list. Tell me your picks in the replies👇!!
What are 2025's biggest failures, set backs, and misfires but which also hold useful lessons about technology?
I think Cybertruck has to be on the list. Tell me your picks in the replies👇!!
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am preparing MIT Technology Review's infamous list of "worst" technologies of the year.
What are 2025's biggest failures, set backs, and misfires but which also hold useful lessons about technology?
I think Cybertruck has to be on the list. Tell me your picks in the replies👇!!
What are 2025's biggest failures, set backs, and misfires but which also hold useful lessons about technology?
I think Cybertruck has to be on the list. Tell me your picks in the replies👇!!
Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet’s surface. But in other places, they’re obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power.
How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources
Zanskar used AI tools to identify a site that could host a commercial power plant.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet’s surface. But in other places, they’re obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power.
Steady nuclear energy is in high demand this time of year.
Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter
Steady nuclear energy is in high demand this time of year.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Steady nuclear energy is in high demand this time of year.
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.
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Week 5 of our State of AI collaboration with the @financialtimes.com - and this week we have @davidrotman.bsky.social and @richardwaters.bsky.social discussing the impact generative AI is having on the jobs market and the economy as a whole.
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The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity
This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Week 5 of our State of AI collaboration with the @financialtimes.com - and this week we have @davidrotman.bsky.social and @richardwaters.bsky.social discussing the impact generative AI is having on the jobs market and the economy as a whole.
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In this edition of The State of AI, Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity
This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In this edition of The State of AI, Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
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December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.
Nominations are now open for our 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
Nominations are now open for our global 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nominations are now open for our 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
It’s free and easy to nominate yourself or someone you know—here’s how.
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.
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It's week 4 of State of AI, our partnership with the
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's week 4 of State of AI, our partnership with the
@financialtimes.com
This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/24/1...
@financialtimes.com
This week, @eileenguo.bsky.social kickstarts a conversation with @melissahei.bsky.social on the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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Securus can now fund this AI model with the fees inmates pay to make calls, after the company successfully lobbied for new regulations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
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December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Securus can now fund this AI model with the fees inmates pay to make calls, after the company successfully lobbied for new regulations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/01/1...
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, and FT tech correspondent Melissa Heikkilä discuss the privacy implications of our new reliance on chatbots.
It was five years ago this week that AlphaFold 2’s debut took scientists by surprise. Now that the hype has died down, what impact has AlphaFold really had? How are scientists using it? And what’s next? We talked to John Jumper (as well as a few other scientists) to find out.
What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It was five years ago this week that AlphaFold 2’s debut took scientists by surprise. Now that the hype has died down, what impact has AlphaFold really had? How are scientists using it? And what’s next? We talked to John Jumper (as well as a few other scientists) to find out.
📩 We want to hear from you! Do you have a question about something you read, or a topic that we cover? Let us know in the replies or at [email protected] and we'll answer some of your questions in our next magazine issue.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📩 We want to hear from you! Do you have a question about something you read, or a topic that we cover? Let us know in the replies or at [email protected] and we'll answer some of your questions in our next magazine issue.
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
This is how AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
Three things to know about the future of electricity
How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is how AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.
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Spoke to Spanish company Multiverse Computing about how they used quantum physics-inspired methods to compress LLMs and interesting attempts to remove censorship from Chinese open-source models. www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/19/1...
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
They managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Spoke to Spanish company Multiverse Computing about how they used quantum physics-inspired methods to compress LLMs and interesting attempts to remove censorship from Chinese open-source models. www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/19/1...
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Hi freelancers, I just posted a call for pitches for @technologyreview.com's upcoming print issue. The theme is Nature. Pitch deadline is December 5. More info here! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#writingopportunity | Rachel Courtland
#WritingOpportunity: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is Nature.
We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling investigati...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hi freelancers, I just posted a call for pitches for @technologyreview.com's upcoming print issue. The theme is Nature. Pitch deadline is December 5. More info here! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...