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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.
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Plus: Apple’s visionOS 2.4 makes it easier for guests to use the Vision Pro, Eero has two new Wi-Fi 7 routers, Oppo’s folding phone is the slimmest yet, and Omega drops a bronze Bond watch.
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000
Theater productions Doomers and McNeal tackle AI’s impact on humanity and the creative process.
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:19:27 +0000
Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether some AI tools are more ethical than others, and if developers can make AI wiser.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:40:40 +0000
One developer responds to the release of Muse: “We are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives.”
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:58:54 +0000
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump administration.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000
WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language tutor for travelers.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:19:52 +0000
Meta’s Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa.
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 14:50:00 -0500
Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan wants computational techniques to help solve societal problems.
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 17:00:00 -0500
Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.
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 15:40:00 -0500
The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will be hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT.
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 14:50:00 -0500
Junior Katie Spivakovsky describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation to biomedical research and beyond.
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.
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be.
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:10:00 -0500
Researchers develop “ContextCite,” an innovative method to track AI’s source attribution and detect potential misinformation.
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. Here’s how he’s thinking about AI’s effect on the economy.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
MIT engineers developed the largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, that could speed design of eco-friendly cars and electric vehicles.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Researchers propose a simple fix to an existing technique that could help artists, designers, and engineers create better 3D models.
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0500
This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip, opening the door to high-speed processors that can learn in real-time.
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data — and why we lack it for many things.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:20:00 -0500
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
