MIT Technology Review Research
Lee Vinsel is a technology historian who covers a range of topics including AI's societal impacts and the ethics of genetic research. His work often explores the tension between technological disruption and the importance of maintenance.
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AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
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PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
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Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution
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A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible
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The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.
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Teaching AI to run with the turbines
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Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up
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The original title is 8 words: "Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product"
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Agent confidence on the technical frontier
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Repositioning retail for the AI era
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The original headline is: "IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore's Law another decade"
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Three regulatory issues to monitor in Anthropic's government dispute
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The inevitable weakness of metrics
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Brain-computer interface trials are taking off
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The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
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Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
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Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
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China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
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World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
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Musk v. OpenAI trial: Musk claims deception in founding, discusses AI risks and xAI's model usage
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The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs
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Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining
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Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science
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The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
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