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From chip design to biotech, education, mathematics, and beyond, AI is driving innovation and transformation across diverse fields. There is virtually no industry untouched by the influence of AI, with its impact felt in healthcare, finance, transportation, customer service, and more.
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:35:37 +0000
Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk's AI startup xAI.
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:07:09 +0000
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether trying to remove your data and information from generative AI tools could lessen your impact on the technology.
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000
Challenging the world's most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself.
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:00:11 +0000
Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don’t have squeaky clean data.
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
We surveyed 730 coders and developers about how (and how often) they use AI chatbots on the job. The results amazed and disturbed us.
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia.
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:30:00 -0400
EduFi, founded by an MIT alumna, provides low-interest student loans to families in Pakistan so more can attend college.
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:55:00 -0400
A new international collaboration unites MIT and maritime industry leaders to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, alternative fuels, data-powered strategies for operation, and more.
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.
Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:40:00 -0400
Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology.
Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:45:00 -0400
As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture.
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400
U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions.
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500
New research could allow a person to correct a robot’s actions in real-time, using the kind of feedback they’d give another human.
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0500
Felice Frankel discusses the implications of generative AI when communicating science visually.
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:45:00 -0500
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:30:00 -0500
Agreement between MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries aims to deliver power efficiencies for data centers and ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:00:00 -0500
The programmable proteins are compact, modular, and can be directed to modify DNA in human cells.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:35:00 -0500
FragFold, developed by MIT Biology researchers, is a computational method with potential for impact on biological research and therapeutic applications.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
ReviveMed uses AI to gather large-scale data on metabolites — molecules like lipids, cholesterol, and sugar — to match patients with therapeutics.
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:10:00 -0500
Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:45:00 -0500
Alumnus is the first major donor to support the building since Stephen A. Schwarzman’s foundational gift.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:15:00 -0500
In a new MIT course co-taught by EECS and philosophy professors, students tackle moral dilemmas of the digital age.
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0500
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0500
A deep neural network called CHAIS may soon replace invasive procedures like catheterization as the new gold standard for monitoring heart health.
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0500
New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines.
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution.
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:25:00 -0500
Assistant Professor Sara Beery is using automation to improve monitoring of migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
“We need to both ensure humans reap AI’s benefits and that we don’t lose control of the technology,” says senior Audrey Lorvo.
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:55:00 -0500
The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500
By automatically generating code that leverages two types of data redundancy, the system saves bandwidth, memory, and computation.
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500
A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0500
MIT CSAIL Principal Research Scientist Una-May O’Reilly discusses how she develops agents that reveal AI models’ security weaknesses before hackers do.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:45:00 -0500
Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Luca Carlone is working to give robots a more human-like awareness of their environment.
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Station A, founded by MIT alumni, makes the process of buying clean energy simple for property owners.
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500
Starting with a single frame in a simulation, a new system uses generative AI to emulate the dynamics of molecules, connecting static molecular structures and developing blurry pictures into videos.
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0500
Providing electricity to power-hungry data centers is stressing grids, raising prices for consumers, and slowing the transition to clean energy.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
The startup NALA, which began as an MIT class project, directly matches art buyers with artists.
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:40:00 -0500
With their recently-developed neural network architecture, MIT researchers can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations.
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:15:00 -0500
Machine-learning models let neuroscientists study the impact of auditory processing on real-world hearing.
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:45:00 -0500
As the use of generative AI continues to grow, Lincoln Laboratory's Vijay Gadepally describes what researchers and consumers can do to help mitigate its environmental impact.
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Inspired by the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500
Using this model, researchers may be able to identify antibody drugs that can target a variety of infectious diseases.
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Matteo Bucci’s research sheds new light on an ancient process, to improve the efficiency of heat transfer in many industrial systems.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Corvus Robotics, founded by Mohammed Kabir ’21, is using drones that can navigate in GPS-denied environments to expedite inventory management.
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500
MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0500
An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0500
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
A new technique identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model’s failures.
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Using LLMs to convert machine-learning explanations into readable narratives could help users make better decisions about when to trust a model.
