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Week in Review

This week’s round up: What even is the AI bubble? This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”. The 8 worst technology flops of 2025. And more.

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

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

What even is the AI bubble?

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.

The 8 worst technology flops of 2025

The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid robots all made this year’s list of the biggest technology failures.

This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”

A small group of volunteers will receive multiple injections of the experimental treatments next month, says Unlimited Bio.

China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries.

As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly system.

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