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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, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000
Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000
Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000
Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0000
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:12:38 +0000
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000
Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:47:15 +0000
Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:24:55 +0000
The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:17:31 +0000
A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000
WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss."
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:25:00 -0500
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500
A new method developed at MIT could root out vulnerabilities and improve LLM safety and performance.
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
By minimizing the need to drive around looking for a parking spot, this technique can save drivers up to 35 minutes — and give them a realistic estimate of total travel time.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
The context of long-term conversations can cause an LLM to begin mirroring the user’s viewpoints, possibly reducing accuracy or creating a virtual echo-chamber.
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:50:00 -0500
Project AI Evidence will connect governments, tech companies, and nonprofits with world-class economists at MIT and across J-PAL's global network to evaluate and improve AI solutions.
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he believes we are at an inflection point.
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0500
Driven by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, drug-resistant infections are on the rise, while development of new antibacterial tools has slowed.
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0500
Opening a new window on the brainstem, a new tool reliably and finely resolves distinct nerve bundles in live diffusion MRI scans, revealing signs of injury or disease.
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also have thoughts on whether five-rotation jumps are humanly possible.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500
Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results.
Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:38:22 -0500
MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian cancer.
Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:30:00 -0500
EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently.
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:25:00 -0500
He joins Nikos Trichakis in guiding the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:15:00 -0500
Torralba’s research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception.
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:00 -0500
Professor James Collins discusses how collaboration has been central to his research into combining computational predictions with new experimental platforms.
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:25:00 -0500
The MIT senior will pursue a master’s degree at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0500
Architecture students bring new forms of human-machine interaction into the kitchen.
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0500
WITEC is working to develop the first wearable ultrasound imaging system to monitor chronic conditions in real-time, with the goal of enabling earlier detection and timely intervention.
Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0500
MIT researchers’ DiffSyn model offers recipes for synthesizing new materials, enabling faster experimentation and a shorter journey from hypothesis to use.
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:50:00 -0500
As AI technology advances, a new interdisciplinary course seeks to equip students with foundational critical thinking skills in computing.
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:30:00 -0500
New research detects hidden evidence of mistaken correlations — and provides a method to improve accuracy.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:50:00 -0500
With support from the Siegel Family Endowment, the newly renamed MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence investigates how brains produce intelligence and how it can be replicated to solve problems.
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:00:00 -0500
“MechStyle” allows users to personalize 3D models, while ensuring they’re physically viable after fabrication, producing unique personal items and assistive technology.
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500
While the growing energy demands of AI are worrying, some techniques can also help make power grids cleaner and more efficient.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:55:00 -0500
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:30:00 -0500
Recent launch event for the center featured discussions on pro-worker AI, wealth inequality, and the future of liberal democracy.
Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:55:00 -0500
New research demonstrates how AI models can be tested to ensure they don’t cause harm by revealing anonymized patient health data.
Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:25:00 -0500
MIT graduate student C Jacob Payne reimagines historic architecture and invents new possibilities at the intersection of AI and design.
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:20:00 -0500
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:00 -0500
CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:10:00 -0500
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers developed an expressive architecture that provides better state tracking and sequential reasoning in LLMs over long texts.
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500
The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for robots or autonomous vehicles.
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500
An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:15:00 -0500
Assistant Professor Yunha Hwang utilizes microbial genomes to examine the language of biology. Her appointment reflects MIT’s commitment to exploring the intersection of genetics research and AI.
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0500
Nuclear waste continues to be a bottleneck in the widespread use of nuclear energy, so doctoral student Dauren Sarsenbayev is developing models to address the problem.
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0500
The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease.
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:30:00 -0500
The “self-steering” DisCIPL system directs small models to work together on tasks with constraints, like itinerary planning and budgeting.
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:10:00 -0500
The new certificate program will equip naval officers with skills needed to solve the military’s hardest problems.
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500
The technique can help scientists in economics, public health, and other fields understand whether to trust the results of their experiments.
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500
By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0500
The speech-to-reality system combines 3D generative AI and robotic assembly to create objects on demand.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed machines that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistic centers.
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500
This new technique enables LLMs to dynamically adjust the amount of computation they use for reasoning, based on the difficulty of the question.
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500
With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.
Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:35:00 -0500
For PhD student Benjamin Manning, the future of work means grasping AI’s role on our behalf while transforming and accelerating social scientific discovery.
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Large language models can learn to mistakenly link certain sentence patterns with specific topics — and may then repeat these patterns instead of reasoning.
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:25:00 -0500
BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500
The virtual VideoCAD tool could boost designers’ productivity and help train engineers learning computer-aided design.
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Phillip Isola studies the ways in which intelligent machines “think,” in an effort to safely integrate AI into human society.
