2026-04-22 · AI · 游戏 · 科技 · 金融市场
Listen to the session or watch below Watch a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature conference for AI leadership. Subscribers got an exclusive first look at a new list capturing 10 key technologies, emerging trends, bold ideas, and powerful mo…
阅读全文 →Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing pressure on resources such as timber. MIT engineers have an idea that could make a dent in both problems at once. In a recent study, a team led by mechanical engi…
阅读全文 →Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has found that one such protein, intelectin-2, both helps fortify the mucosal barrier and offers broad-spectrum protection against harmful bac…
阅读全文 →How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel Freeman, and colleagues outline a strategy for doing so with an…
阅读全文 →Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that some early forms of life evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years bef…
阅读全文 →Heat generated by electronic devices is usually a problem, but a team led by Giuseppe Romano, a research scientist at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, has found a way to use it for data processing that doesn’t rely on electricity. In this analog computing method, input data is encoded n…
阅读全文 →A long stretch of humid heat followed by a powerful thunderstorm is a familiar weather pattern in the tropics, but it’s also becoming more common in midlatitude regions such as the US Midwest. A recent study by two MIT scientists identifies a key atmospheric condition that determines how hot, humid,…
阅读全文 →Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies and planning and former executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future MIT PRESS, 2026, $24.95 The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, W…
阅读全文 →At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whether she’d have gone all in on artificial intelligence had it not been for the covid pandemic. She ha…
阅读全文 →If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomography (OCT)—a technology invented by clinician-scientist David Huang ’85, SM ’89, PhD ’93, and now used in 40 million procedures per year. OCT is a noninvasive …
阅读全文 →With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that's focused on AI coding could help xAI's tools com…
阅读全文 →Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained - sometimes to the point of condoning violence. But look at the issues…
阅读全文 →OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with imp…
阅读全文 →Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company's getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you'll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16's GPU modules into external ones instea…
阅读全文 →YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood - meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear. The platform's likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake content and flags it for public figures enrolled in the program. Public figures can use it to keep …
阅读全文 →X-Men '97's second season will get a world premiere at New York's Tribeca Festival this June, meaning the series is almost certainly hitting Disney+ this summer.
阅读全文 →Reports suggest that Alterra, a Ubisoft game featuring social, crafting, and gathering mechanics, is dead.
阅读全文 →A veteran Pokémon fan has been able to fund his own wedding, after rediscovering a trio of rare Charizard cards hidden away in his attic.
阅读全文 →A crew member working on the live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2 has reportedly suffered a major injury.
阅读全文 →Alien: Rogue Incursion - Part One: Evolved Edition is now officially a Nintendo Switch 2 game
阅读全文 →MindsEye staff members are suing developer Build a Rocket Boy over alleged secret surveillance software.
阅读全文 →The original Top Gun and its recent sequel are both soaring back into theaters for the franchise's 40th anniversary.
阅读全文 →Microsoft has dropped the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 per month to $22.99 per month, while PC Game Pass is being reduced from $16.49 per month to $13.99 per month. Both changes are effective immediately. Meanwhile, new Call of Duty games will no longer be included as day-one release…
阅读全文 →Troy Baker is the man the game studios have on speed dial for his voice-acting talents, and now the man behind Joel in The Last Of Us, Sam from Uncharted, and Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle wants to make his own
阅读全文 →On May the Fourth / Star Wars Day, Burger King is kicking off a celebration of The Mandalorian and Grogu with a special themed menu that features a BBQ Bounty Whopper, Grogu's Blue Cookie Shake, Collectible Cups, kid's meal toys, and much more.
阅读全文 →Upcoming RTS Dawn of War 4 has a new CGI trailer to reveal the Adeptus Mechanicus, but it was the depiction of Necrons that sparked a debate within the Warhammer 40,000 community.
阅读全文 →Switch 2 exclusive Splatoon Raiders will arrive in July, Nintendo has announced.
阅读全文 →It appears I Am Legend 2 is moving forward at Warner Bros., with reports indicating Transformers: Rise of the Beasts director Steven Caple Jr. is officially developing the sequel.
阅读全文 →Crimson Desert motion capture actor comments on Kliff.
阅读全文 →The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.
阅读全文 →Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
阅读全文 →Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.
阅读全文 →The move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market.
阅读全文 →Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.
阅读全文 →Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.
阅读全文 →Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
阅读全文 →Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.
阅读全文 →When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It's 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked, …
阅读全文 →ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.
阅读全文 →This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.
阅读全文 →The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.
阅读全文 →Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.
阅读全文 →Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.
阅读全文 →A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.
阅读全文 →Warsh also expressed firm commitment to fighting inflation with only one mention of the labor market.
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