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The Download: how Trump’s tariffs will affect US manufacturing, and AI architectureThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sweeping tariffs could threaten the US manufacturing rebound Despite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will…Sweeping tariffs could threaten the US manufacturing reboundDespite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will produce a “golden age” of American industry. Trump himself insists, “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” While it’s possible that very targeted tariffs could help protect…
Driving business value by optimizing the cloudOrganizations are deepening their cloud investments at an unprecedented pace, recognizing its fundamental role in driving business agility and innovation. Synergy Research Group reports that companies spent $84 billion worldwide on cloud infrastructure services in the third quarter of 2024, a 23% rise over the third quarter of 2023 and the fourth consecutive quarter in…
The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibesThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal “We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge…The vibes are shifting for US climate techThe past few years have been an almost nonstop parade of good news for climate tech in the US. Headlines about billion-dollar grants from the government, massive private funding rounds, and labs churning out advance after advance have been routine. Now, though, things are starting to shift. About $8 billion worth of US climate tech…
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goalWe were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. The grove grew as if indifferent to certain unspoken rules of botany. There was no understory, no foreground or background, only the trees themselves, which grew as a…Roundtables: Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to ProductRecorded on April 23, 2025 Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist…
The Download: introducing the Creativity issueThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Creativity issue The university computer lab may seem like an unlikely center for creativity. We tend to think of creativity as happening more in the artist’s studio or writers’ workshop. But…Seeing AI as a collaborator, not a creatorThe reason you are reading this letter from me today is that I was bored 30 years ago. I was bored and curious about the world and so I wound up spending a lot of time in the university computer lab, screwing around on Usenet and the early World Wide Web, looking for interesting things…
Why we still need AM radioAriel Aberg-Riger is the author of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History.3 Things Caiwei Chen is into right nowA new play about OpenAI I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called MindMesh. The action is set almost entirely in a meeting room; the first act follows executives immediately after the firing of company CEO Seth (a stand-in…
Gooey greatnessA new type of glue developed by researchers from MIT and Germany combines sticky polymers inspired by the mussel with the germ-fighting properties of another natural material: mucus. To stick to a rock or a ship, mussels secrete a fluid full of proteins connected by chemical cross-links. As it happens, similar cross-linking features are found…
A worldwide road trip for the Institute’s presidentSoon after MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth, was inaugurated in May 2023, she made it a priority to expand her early on-campus listening tour to alumni living and working around the world. She wanted to learn more about their priorities and their connections with MIT, while also engaging them in her expansive vision for its…
Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mudOne costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the concrete is poured. Now MIT researchers have developed a way to replace the wood with lightly treated mud. “What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil…
Odd new tricks from a massive black holeIn 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy 270 million light-years away. Its corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later. Now members of the team have…
How the brain, with sleep, maps spaceScientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal has been. More useful, though, is remembering where places are relative to each other, and it hasn’t been clear how those mental maps are formed. A study by MIT neuroscientist Matthew Wilson and colleagues sheds…
Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ cropsTiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee, comes closer to matching nature’s performance than ever before. Led by Kevin Chen, an associate…The Institute’s greatest ambassadorsAfter decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division 1 football team, coming to MIT was a bit of a culture shock—in the best possible way. I’ve heard from MIT alumni all about late-night psetting, when to catch MITHenge, and the best way to celebrate Pi Day (with pie, of course).…
Unleashing the potential of qubits, one molecule at a timeIt all began with a simple origami model. As an undergrad at Harvard, Danna Freedman went to a professor’s office hours for her general chemistry class and came across an elegant paper model that depicted the fullerene molecule. The intricately folded representation of chemical bonds and atomic arrangements sparked her interest, igniting a profound curiosity…
Inside-out learningWhen the prison doors first closed behind him more than 50 years ago, Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, felt decidedly unsettled. In his first job out of college, as a researcher for a consulting company working on a project for the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, he had been tasked with interviewing incarcerated participants in…
Building better citiesClara Brenner, MBA ’12, arrived in Cambridge on the lookout for a business partner. She wanted to start her own company—and never have to deal with a boss again. She would go it alone if she had to, but she hoped to find someone whose skills would complement her own. It’s a common MBA tale.…
The future of AI processingArtificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging in everyday use cases, thanks to advances in foundational models, more powerful chip technology, and abundant data. To become truly embedded and seamless, AI computation must now be distributed—and much of it will take place on device and at the edge. To support this evolution, computation for running AI workloads…The Download: canceled climate tech projects, and South Korea’s AI web comicsThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. $8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025 This year has been rough for climate technology: Companies have canceled, downsized, or shut down at least 16 large-scale…
Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry“My mind is still sharp and my hands work just fine, so I have no interest in getting help from AI to draw or write stories,” says Lee Hyun-se, a legendary South Korean cartoonist best known for his seminal series A Daunting Team, a 1983 manhwa about the coming-of-age of heroic underdog baseball players. “Still,…
AI is pushing the limits of the physical worldArchitecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often referred to as “paper architecture”). That imagination has long been supported and enabled by design technology, but the latest advancements in artificial intelligence have prompted…Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user dataA lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for “willfully turning a blind eye” to the mismanagement of a human rights fund for Chinese dissidents was settled for $5.425 million last week, after an eight-year court battle. At least $3 million will go toward a new fund; settlement documents say it will “provide humanitarian assistance to persons…
$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025This year has been rough for climate technology: Companies have canceled, downsized, or shut down at least 16 large-scale projects worth $8 billion in total in the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report. That’s far more cancellations than have typically occurred in recent years, according to a new report from E2, a…
The quest to build islands with ocean currents in the MaldivesIn satellite images, the 20-odd coral atolls of the Maldives look something like skeletal remains or chalk lines at a crime scene. But these landforms, which circle the peaks of a mountain range that has vanished under the Indian Ocean, are far from inert. They’re the products of living processes—places where coral has grown toward…
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Liquid AI is revolutionizing LLMs to work on edge devices like smartphones with new ‘Hyena Edge’ modelHyena Edge’s success positions Liquid AI as one of the emerging players to watch in the evolving AI model landscape.
Subway Surfers and Crossy Road’s crossover brings together mobile classicsSubway Surfers and Crossy Road recently crossed over, bringing together two of the longest-running titles in mobile gaming.
The new AI calculus: Google’s 80% cost edge vs. OpenAI’s ecosystemExplore the Google vs OpenAI AI ecosystem battle post-o3. Deep dive into Google's huge cost advantage (TPU vs GPU), agent strategies & model risks for enterprise
The new GamesBeat: Ready to serve the industry, with your help | The DeanBeatThank you all for the kind words related to our announcement that GamesBeat is going independent as we spin out of VentureBeat.Reburn launches ambitious new IP with debut of La Quimera on PC via Steam (Update: delayed)Game developer, Reburn has launched its first original narrative sci-fi shooter game, La Quimera on PC via Steam.
Sci-fi spaceflight VR sim Remnant Protocol debuts in Q4 on Meta Quest Store and SteamRemnant Protocol will take us back to the age of sci-fi spaceflight sims as it launches in VR on the Meta Quest Store and on Steam in Q4.
GTA V and VTubers top Twitch’s list of 2024 streaming trendsTwitch has revealed more information about its streaming trends of 2024, and GTA V is its most popular game, while VTubers are on the rise.
Is that really your boss calling? Jericho Security raises $15M to stop deepfake fraud that’s cost businesses $200M in 2025 alonePentagon-backed Jericho Security raises $15 million to combat deepfake fraud that has already cost North American businesses $200 million in 2025, using AI to detect increasingly convincing voice and video impersonations.
Intel’s new CEO signals streamlining efforts but does not spell out exact layoff numbersLip-Bu Tan, the new CEO of Intel, sent out a blunt message to employees saying the company has to reorganize to be more efficient.
MagicBlock raises $7.5M for real-time, app-specific extensions for Solana blockchainMagicBlock, a real-time engine for decentralized games and applications on Solana, has raised a $7.5 million seed round.
Zencoder buys Machinet to challenge GitHub Copilot as AI coding assistant consolidation acceleratesZencoder acquires Machinet to strengthen its position in the rapidly consolidating AI coding assistant market, expanding its JetBrains ecosystem integration while outperforming competitors like GitHub Copilot with innovative features such as Repo Grokking and Coffee Mode.
Remedy will launch FBC: Firebreak on PC and consoles worldwide on June 17Remedy Entertainment announced FBC: Firebreak will launch worldwide on June 17 on the PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) and the consoles. During a special livestream today, Espoo, Finland-based Remedy said FBC: Firebreak, the upcoming three-player cooperative first-person shooter set in the mysterious world of Control, will launch worldwide on June 17, 2025. FBC: Firebreak […]
Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citationsPleias emphasizes the models’ suitability for integration into search-augmented assistants, educational tools, and user support systems.
GamesBeat Summit 2025 will feature Visionary and Up-and-Comer AwardsToday we're announcing our eighth annual GamesBeat Visionary Awards and the team of judges we’ve selected to help pick the winners of this year’s awards.
Evil Geniuses and Theta Labs launch AI chatbot based on esports mascot MeeshEvil Geniuses, the well-known esports organization and brand, has launched its Meesh AI chatbot in a partnership with Theta Labs.
Blockbusters, indie creators and social platforms reshape gaming in 2025 | DeloitteThe economics of digital entertainment are being reshaped by independent creators, global social platforms, and the biggest technology companies. Studios and streamers may need to bulk up to compete. That’s the view of the Deloitte’s 2025 media and entertainment outlook, written by executives Chris Arkenberg, Jeff Loucks, Kevin Westcott, Doug Van Dyke and Danny Ledger. […]
Wombo Games reveals itself and its debut title, Raiders of BlackveilWombo Games, created by IO Interactive's co-founder, revealed its debut title, a MOBA-inspired roguelite called Raiders of Blackveil.
Until Dawn film strays too far from the game’s storyWhen I reviewed the horror game Until Dawn in 2015, it was my favorite game of the year. The movie based on the game? Meh.
Mawari’s DIO network will offer AI-driven immersive 3D experiencesMawari, a Web3 decentralized network that enables AI-driven immersive 3D experiences, today announced its Decentralized Infrastructure Offering (DIO) to expand its distributed network globally. It’s a good time to do this thanks to skyrocketing demand for real-time AI-powered 3D content. Through the DIO, Mawari invites compute resource owners globally to become Guardian Node Operators and […]
Reddit and Moloco join Google, Meta, TikTok and Apple in mobile ad leadershipSingular released the 2025 return on investment (ROI) Index, a comprehensive data-driven ranking of mobile advertising performance.
Game acquisitions and fundings make a comeback in Q1 2025 | Drake Star PartnersGaming M&A hit its highest quarterly deal value in two years and recovered from a dip in the Q4 of 2024, Drake Star Partners said.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows sneaks to top of March sales | CircanaDespite some controversy leading up to its release, Assassin’s Creed Shadows managed to rise to the top of March sales charts in the U.S., according to industry-tracking firm Circana. It was one of several releases that month to make it onto the charts, with Shadows also becoming the second-best-selling game of the year. However, sales […]
Logitech adds new tools for photographs, video and product design to MX Creative ConsoleLogitech announced it has added new tools for photographers, videographers and designers to the MX Creative Console in the Logi Marketplace.
Visa Product Design System will empower developers and designersVisa is one of those giant businesses that spans all commerce, but it has a program today that applies to developers and designers -- including game folks.
Google adds more AI tools to its Workspace productivity appsGoogle expanded Gemini's features, adding the popular podcast-style feature Audio Overviews to the platform.
Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGENRAGEN stands out not just as a technical contribution but as a conceptual step toward more autonomous, reasoning-capable AI agents.
The Political Machine 2024 update includes tariffs, new demographics and moreThe Political Machine is one of those games that never has to end, given that its fuel is interest in U.S. presidential politics.
Amazon’s SWE-PolyBench just exposed the dirty secret about your AI coding assistantAmazon launches SWE-PolyBench, a groundbreaking multi-language benchmark that exposes critical limitations in AI coding assistants across Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java while introducing new metrics beyond simple pass rates for real-world development tasks.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s image generation available as APIEnterprises can now make Studio Ghibli-inspired images through OpenAI's API.
From friction to flow: Why Swissport scrapped its VPN maze for Cato’s SASE platformSwissport ditches legacy tech, deploying a global SASE architecture with Cato Networks securing 26,000 users, unlocking real-time control.
Why Discord founder Jason Citron is stepping down from CEO job | exclusive interviewJason Citron is stepping down as CEO of Discord and he has hired game veteran Humam Sakhnini as the new CEO.With a million sold, Soulstone Survivors will come to consoles in 2025Digital Bandidos and the dev team at Game Smithing are bringing the million-selling action roguelike Soulstone Survivors to the consoles.
The Sandbox unveils multi-year partnership with Bruce Lee EnterprisesThe Sandbox, a Web3 Lego-like virtual world, announced a multi-year partnership with Bruce Lee Enterprises for Bruce Lee’s return to the "metaverse."
USC Ganek Immersive Studio to unveil student showcaseUSC's Ganek Immersive Studio, a creative hub, has announced the line-up for its annual student Immersive Showcase.
Microsoft just launched powerful AI ‘agents’ that could completely transform your workday — and challenge Google’s workplace dominanceMicrosoft unveils new AI reasoning agents and Copilot features to transform workplace productivity, with Chief Product Officer Aparna Chennapragada sharing exclusive insights on the company's vision for human-agent collaboration.
Ubisoft and Immutable announce Might & Magic Fates gameUbisoft and Immutable announced Might & Magic Fates, an original Web3 strategy card game set in the beloved Might & Magic universe.B3 partner with Reach Labs to launch user acquisition platform and GameChainB3, an open gaming ecosystem built by Coinbase veterans, has partnered with Chris DeWolfe's startup Reach Labs to deploy a UA platform.
$42.1 million poured into startup offering energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloadsThe funding infusion sharpens a mission to make hyperscale analytics radically cheaper and greener at the very moment enterprises fear ballooning data‑center power bills. 
More accurate coding: Researchers adapt Sequential Monte Carlo for AI-generated codeResearchers from MIT, Yale, McGill University and others found that adapting the Sequential Monte Carlo algorithm can make AI-generated code better.
SWiRL: The business case for AI that thinks like your best problem-solversTraining LLMs on trajectories of reasoning and tool use makes them superior at multi-step reasoning tasks.
Batch data processing is too slow for real-time AI: How open-source Apache Airflow 3.0 solves the challenge with event-driven data orchestrationOpen-source data orchestration gets a major rewrite to help support inference and enterprise AI
Bethesda shadow-drops Oblivion Remastered on a TuesdayBethesda finally revealed the long-awaited Oblivion remaster, and also launched the massive RPG on the same day.
A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and moreWith a focus on expressive quality, reproducibility, and open access, Dia adds a distinctive new voice to the landscape of text-to-speech.
GamesBeat spins off as independent media brand, appoints new leadershipGamesBeat today announces it will become an independent media brand.Motiviti took (at least) 11 years to make point-and-click adventure game Elroy and the AliensElroy and the Aliens recently debuted on Steam as a hand-drawn point-and-click adventure that was inspired by classic LucasArts games.
Sesh raises $7M for new fan communities and launches member cardSesh, a fan engagement ecosystem that connects people with their favorite music artists, announced it has raised $7 million.
Relyance AI builds ‘x-ray vision’ for company data: Cuts AI compliance time by 80% while solving trust crisisRelyance AI's new Data Journeys platform gives enterprises unprecedented visibility into data flows, reducing AI compliance time by 80% while helping organizations build trustworthy artificial intelligence systems in an increasingly regulated landscape.
VentureBeat spins out GamesBeat, accelerates enterprise AI missionVentureBeat today announced the spinout of GamesBeat as a standalone company – a strategic move that sharpens our focus on the biggest transformation of our time: the enterprise shift to AI, data infrastructure and intelligent security.
Ready Gibraltar claims wins in its legal war with Ready Makers Inc.The Supreme Court of Gibraltar has lifted the worldwide freeze order against Ready Gibraltar -- a legal action that was brought about by a company civil war.
eSelf will bring private AI tutors to students worldwideeSelf, a startup that focuses on conversational AI agents, is partnering an educational group to bring private AI tutors to students.
Blue Ocean Games announces $30M fund to invest in indie games via game challengeBlue Ocean Games has launched a $30 million fund to invest in the next generation of indie game developers.
PlayVS expands reach with acquisitions of Generation Esports and Playfly College EsportsPlayVS, North America’s amateur esports platform, announced the acquisitions of Generation Esports and Playfly College Esports.
Astar’s Yoki Legacy will launch on Sony’s Soneium blockchainAstar, a collective driving Web3 adoption from Japan, is relaunching its Yoki Origins as Yoki Legacy on Sony's Soneium blockchain.
Duolingo’s next move is teaching chessDuolingo, the world’s most popular learning app, is adding a new subject to its curriculum: Chess.
Riot Games appoints Hoby Darling as its new presidentRiot Games announced today that it has appointed Hoby Darling as its new president, succeeding CEO Dylan Jadeja.Watch: Google DeepMind CEO and AI Nobel winner Demis Hassabis on CBS’ ’60 Minutes’The segment ended with a meditation on the future: a world where AI tools could transform almost every human endeavor.
Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its ownAnthropic's groundbreaking study analyzes 700,000 conversations to reveal how AI assistant Claude expresses 3,307 unique values in real-world interactions, providing new insights into AI alignment and safety.
TBD VC unveils $35M venture fund to back Israeli deep tech startupsTBD VC, a new early-stage venture capital firm, has announced a $35 million fund to back deep tech Israeli founders at the pre-seed and seed stages, both in Israel and around the globe. The fund launch comes amid a new wave of breakout Israeli tech stories, including Wiz’s recent $32 billion acquisition by Google and […]
Aethir launches AI Unbundled industry alliance for Web3 AI developmentAethir, a provider of decentralized GPU cloud compute, announced the launch of AI Unbundled, an industry-wide alliance for Web3 AI.
2027 AGI forecast maps a 24-month sprint to human-level AIThe newly published AI 2027 scenario offers a detailed 2 to 3-year forecast for the future that includes specific technical milestones.
The open source advantage: Faster bugs, better builds, wider buy-inOpen-sourcing is definitely not something to rush into. Here are some pros, cons and general advice based on experience.
