Zanskar used AI tools to identify a site that could host a commercial power plant. Zanskar used AI tools to help revive a New Mexico geothermal plant. Now, the company found a hotspot that could support a new power plant. Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet's surface. But in other places, they're obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power.

Why he thinks near-term targets can be a distraction, and what technologies he expects to power our future grid. Bill Gates doesn't shy away or pretend modesty when it comes to his stature in the climate world today. "Well, who's the biggest funder of climate innovation companies?" he asked a handful of journalists at a media roundtable event last week. "If there's someone else, I've never met them." The former Microsoft CEO has spent the last decade investing in climate technology through Breakthrough Energy, which he founded in 2015. Ahead of the UN climate meetings kicking off next week, Gates published a memo outlining what he thinks activists and negotiators should focus on and how he's thinking about the state of climate tech right now.

Watch a subscriber-only conversation exploring how companies are pursuing climate solutions amid political shifts in the U.S. Companies are pursuing climate solutions amid shifting U.S. politics and economic uncertainty. Drawing from MIT Technology Review's 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, this session highlights the most promising technologies--from electric trucks to gene-edited crops--and explores the challenges companies face in advancing climate progress today. It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot Rhiannon Williams Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. It's surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society's essential machines and making it open-source.

Plus: AWS is working to get its customers' services back online following a major outage Science Corporation--a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk's brain-interface venture--has leapfrogged its rival after acquiring a vision implant in advanced testing for a fire-sale price. The implant produces a form of "artificial vision" that lets some patients read text and do crosswords, according to a report published in today. The implant is a microelectronic chip placed under the retina. Using signals from a camera mounted on a pair of glasses, the chip emits bursts of electricity in order to bypass photoreceptor cells damaged by macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in the elderly. How will flowers respond to climate change? Flowers play a key role in most landscapes, from urban to rural areas.

In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to make art can seem absurd. But amid all the muck, there are people using AI tools with real consideration and intent. Some of them are finding notable success as AI artists: They are gaining huge online followings, selling their work at auction, and even having it exhibited in galleries and museums. This story is from our forthcoming print issue, which is all about the body. Plus, you'll also receive a free digital report on nuclear power. Take our quiz: How much do you know about antimicrobial resistance?

Plus: Meta has taken down a group dedicated to tracking ICE officers' movements An emerging field of science is seeking to use cell analysis to predict what kind of a person an embryo might eventually become. Some parents turn to these tests to avoid passing on devastating genetic disorders that run in their families. A much smaller group, driven by dreams of Ivy League diplomas or attractive, well-behaved offspring, are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to optimize for intelligence, appearance, and personality. But customers of the companies emerging to provide it to the public may not be getting what they're paying for. This story is from our forthcoming print issue, which is all about the body. Plus, you'll also receive a free digital report on nuclear power.

Microsoft, JP MorganChase, and a tech company consortium that includes Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and Stripe have all recently struck multimillion-dollar deals to pay paper mill owners to capture at least hundreds of thousands of tons of this greenhouse gas by installing carbon scrubbing equipment in their facilities. The captured carbon dioxide will then be piped down into saline aquifers more than a mile underground, where it should be sequestered permanently. Big Tech is suddenly betting big on this form of carbon removal, known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS. But experts have raised a number of concerns. Like many new nuclear startups, Kairos promises a path to reliable, 24/7 decarbonized power. Unlike most, it already has prototypes under construction and permits for several reactors.

Plus: California's AI safety bill has passed into law Wrinkles and gray hairs aside, it can be difficult to know how well--or poorly--someone's body is truly aging. A person who develops age-related diseases earlier in life, or has other biological changes associated with aging, might be considered "biologically older" than a similar-age person who doesn't have those changes. Some 80-year-olds will be weak and frail, while others are fit and active. Over the past decade, scientists have been uncovering new methods of looking at the hidden ways our bodies are aging. And what they've found is changing our understanding of aging itself. Can we repair the internet?

Plus: The Trump administration has laid off thousands of federal health workers. The pendant on Rebecca Jensen-Clem's necklace is composed of 36 silver hexagons entwined in a honeycomb mosaic. At the Keck Observatory, in Hawaii, just as many segments make up a mirror that spans 33 feet, reflecting images of uncharted worlds for her to study. Jensen-Clem, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, works with the Keck Observatory to try to detect new planets without leaving our own. It's a pursuit that faces a vast array of obstacles, for example wind, and fluctuations in atmospheric density and temperature. At her lab among the redwoods, Jensen-Clem and her students experiment with new technologies and software to help overcome the challenges, and see into space more clearly.

Plus: China's on a mission to crack down on Nvidia's China-specific chips How do our bodies remember? "Like riding a bike" is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk about muscle memory, we're not talking about the muscles themselves but about the memory of a coordinated movement pattern that lives in the motor neurons, which control our muscles. Yet in recent years, scientists have discovered that have a memory for movement and exercise. And the more we move, as with riding a bike or other kinds of exercise, the more those cells begin to make a memory of that exercise. This piece is part of MIT Technology Review Explains: our series untangling the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what's coming next.