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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Dec 2

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 20h

Climate change will make it increasingly difficult to grow crops across many parts of the world. Pairwise—one of this year's 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch—is leveraging CRISPR gene editing to develop plants that can better withstand adverse conditions.

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pairwise and its climate-adapted crops

The company is gene editing crops to make our food supply more resilient to climate change.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

The terminations would cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The terminations would cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 1d

DOE appears set to terminate tens of millions in funding for Project Cypress and South Texas Direct Air Capture Hub, the two big projects in the US DAC Hubs program.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

he terminations cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year.

AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too

Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

HiNa Battery Technology is a trailblazer in developing and mass-producing batteries using sodium, a widely available element that can be extracted from sea salt.

We named HiNa as one of this year’s 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: HiNa Battery Technology and its effort to commercialize salt cells

The Chinese startup has begun mass-producing two types of sodium-ion batteries and plans to launch a third this month.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

Lilac Solutions is pioneering a new type of lithium extraction that could double US production in two years and shake up the industry.

This company is planning a lithium empire from the shores of the Great Salt Lake

Lilac Solutions is pioneering a new type of lithium extraction that could double US production in two years and shake up the industry.

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 1d

Big new feature in @technologyreview.com:

In August, I became the first journalist to visit what could be the first U.S. plant using a much greener, less water intensive process to produce lithium. It's on track to double U.S. lithium production overnight.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/07/1...

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 1d

OpenAI’s new video app is a surreal experiment.

The three big unanswered questions about Sora

OpenAI’s new video app is a surreal experiment.

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Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the removal of another ICE-tracking app from the tech platform it was based on, and what it says about the administration's efforts to re-categorize tracking ICE activity as violence against ICE. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 2d

I also wrote about the challenge of selecting climate tech companies in a moment of such deep economic and political uncertainty, and how we altered our strategies to identify businesses still poised to make a difference.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

How we picked promising climate tech companies in an especially unsettling year

And what distinguishes the firms that made the 2025 edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Pairwise, a seven-year-old startup cofounded by several gene editing pioneers, which is leveraging CRISPR to develop plants that can better withstand increasingly harsh climate conditions.

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pairwise and its climate-adapted crops

The company is gene editing crops to make our food supply more resilient to climate change.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 2d

Redwood Materials, Pairwise, Kairos, Cemvision & @fervoenergy.bsky.social all made this year's @technologyreview.com list of the 2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch. Learn why and check out our full list here:

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

MIT Technology Review's annual list of companies that are taking meaningful steps to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 2d

TR's 2025 Climate Tech list is out!

And @billgates.bsky.social wrote an introductory essay for us.

Bill Gates: Our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity

A measure I call the Green Premium reveals where we can invest in climate progress for maximum impact.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 2d

It’s a foregone conclusion that the world will not meet the climate goals laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But Bill Gates doesn't think this is any reason to be pessimistic.

Here, he argues that our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Image with a quote from Bill Gates that reads: "It's an exciting time—the people who begin a career in clean technology today will have an enormous impact on human welfare."

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 2d

Introducing: The 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch for 2025.

Every year, the MIT Technology Review newsroom evaluates some of the most promising climate tech firms on the planet.

Explore the full list: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

MIT Technology Review's annual list of companies that are taking meaningful steps to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 2d

and here's our own @jtemple.bsky.social explaining why picking the list was a very different beast this time around. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

How we picked promising climate tech companies in an especially unsettling year

And what distinguishes the firms that made the 2025 edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch.

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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 2d

None other than the @billgates.bsky.social wrote an essay to accompany our list—well worth a read of course. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Bill Gates: Our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity

A measure I call the Green Premium reveals where we can invest in climate progress for maximum impact.

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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 2d

So proud of our entire climate team for this fabulous new list of the 10 climate tech companies that we think stand a chance of making a difference. It's our 3rd edition of the list and it's better than ever. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

MIT Technology Review's annual list of companies that are taking meaningful steps to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

www.technologyreview.com

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 6d

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social · 6d

How lovely. My story on what we will leave behind for future historians is in the "notables" section of the new Best American Science & Nature Writing book!

(Don't tell 'em ok)

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Coming soon! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025

Discover the 2025 Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology, curated by Susan Orlean and featuring exceptional science writing that explores the wonders of our natural world.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 6d

Federal support can’t last forever, but things aren’t looking great for electric vehicles in the US.

EV tax credits are dead in the US. Now what?

Federal support can’t last forever, but things aren’t looking great for electric vehicles in the US.

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Amanda Silverman @asilverman.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been an exciting few weeks for features over at @technologyreview.com. First we published one for all you lovely Wikipedia nerds out there, about how the platform + AI are sending small languages into a doom spiral, from @jacobjudah.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...