MIT Technology Review

12/26/2025

The large language model boom of the past few years has had unexpected ramifications for the field of psychotherapy, mostly due to the growing number of people substituting the likes of ChatGPT for human therapists. But less discussed is how some therapists themselves are integrating AI into their practice. As in many other professions, generative AI promises tantalizing efficiency savings, but its adoption risks compromising sensitive patient data and undermining a relationship in which trust is paramount.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.

12/25/2025

GLP-1 agonists like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro might benefit heart and brain health—but research suggests they might also cause pregnancy complications and harm some users.

12/25/2025

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

From “superintelligence” to “slop,” here are the words and phrases that defined another year of AI craziness.

12/25/2025

The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.

12/25/2025

The embryos were created in 1994, while the expectant father was still a toddler, and donated via a Christian “embryo adoption” agency.

12/25/2025

Google estimates that a typical query to Gemini uses five drops of water.

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.

12/25/2025

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century.

12/25/2025

With a reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

12/24/2025

The biggest change to the way search engines have delivered information to us since the 1990s is happening right now. And despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.

Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.

12/24/2025

These are the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025.

Every year, MIT Technology Review's reporters and editors look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. We consider dozens of advances across the fields of AI, biotech, computing, and climate. We can’t see the future, but we expect these ten breakthroughs to affect our world in a big way, for decades to come.

What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list.

12/24/2025

Do your holiday plans include sharing a dinner table with a friend or family member that became a conspiracy theorist seemingly overnight? Here are some tried and trusted techniques that might help you dig them out of their conspiracy theory black hole: https://trib.al/KiYGl1E

12/24/2025

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone

Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.