AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could be cheaper to construct and safer to operate than their predecessors.

Watch a discussion with our editors and reporters on hyperscale AI data centers and next-gen nuclear—two featured technologies on the MIT Technology Review 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026 list.

Speakers: Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations; Casey Crownhart, Senior Climate Reporter; and Mat Honan
Editor in Chief

Recorded on January 28, 2026

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In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll learn about how the idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry.

by Will Douglas Heaven October 30, 2025

Table of Contents:

• How Silicon Valley got AGI-pilled
• The great AGI conspiracy
• How AGI hijacked an industry
• The great AGI conspiracy, concluded

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In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll learn about a new method that scientists have uncovered to look at the ways our bodies are aging.

by  Jessica Hamzelou October 14, 2025

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• Clocks kick off
• Black-box clocks
• How to be young again
• Dogs and dolphins
• When young meets old

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• How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it
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Everything is a conspiracy theory now. MIT Technology Review’s series, “The New Conspiracy Age,” explores how this moment is changing science and technology. Watch a discussion with our editors and Mike Rothschild, journalist and conspiracy theory expert, about how we can make sense of them all.

Speakers: Amanda Silverman, Editor, Features & Investigations; Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Newsroom; and Mike Rothschild, Journalist & Conspiracy Theory Expert.

Recorded on November 20, 2025

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