MIT Technology Review Narrated

This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

What’s next for AI in 2026

The podcast delves into the future of AI in 2026, highlighting five key predictions. It anticipates increased adoption of Chinese open-source LLMs by Silicon Valley companies due to their customizability and cost-effectiveness, naming DeepSeek's R1 and Alibaba's Kuen as examples. A regulatory tug-of-war is expected in ...

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory

AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

How two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

Is this the electric grid of the future?

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

How to fix the internet

Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow

What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Supershoes are reshaping distance running

How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink

Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos

How to measure the returns on R&D spending

How do AI models generate videos?

What’s next for AI and math

How AI can help supercharge creativity