STEM News | Issue 20, 11-1-2025
Selected articles and recent news in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Published in The Conversation — 24 Dec. 2024 - by Michael Timothy Bennett, Elija Perrier
10 Breakthrough Technologies (2025)
Published in MIT Technology Review — 6 Jan. 2025 — by MIT Tech. Rev. (editorial)
What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools
Published in The Conversation — 18 Dec. 2024 — by Brian O'Neill
Published in The Conversation — 11 Dec. 2024 — by Brody H. Foy
There are more than 120 AI bills in Congress right now
Published in MIT Technology Review — 18 Sept. 2024 — by Scott J Mulligan
People can move this bionic leg just by thinking about it
Published in MIT Technology Review — 1 July 2024 — by Sarah Ward
What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? And is it really almost here?
Published in The Conversation — 28 Oct. 2024 — by Flora Salim
Language AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
Published in The Conversation — 20 Dec. 2024 — by John Licato
Will AI revolutionize drug development? Researchers explain why it depends on how it’s used
Published in The Conversation — 3 Jan. 2025 — by Duxin Sun, Christian Macedonia
Published in FLI — 11 Dec. 2024 — by Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Understanding ML Compilers: The Journey From Your Code Into the GPU
Published in Machine Learning Frontiers — 24 Nov. 2024 — by Samuel Flender
The Rise of Sparse Mixtures of Experts: Switch Transformers
Published in Machine Learning Frontiers — 7 Jan. 2024 — by Samuel Flender
Published in Quanta Magazine — 19 Dec. 2024 — by Bill Andrew
The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
Published in MIT Technology Review — 17 Dec. 2024 — by Antonio Regalado