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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.
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:22:26 +0000
Apple took a measured approach to AI at WWDC. A new research paper suggests the company is skeptical about some recent AI advances too.
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:09:49 +0000
After almost 10 years, Google Assistant was recently axed in favor of Gemini. Siri gets a bad rap—now is the time for Apple to make a change too.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:22:46 +0000
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:25:26 +0000
Aravind Srinivas says agents need access to apps and claims that letting OpenAI take control of Chrome would be a disaster for the open Web.
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000
As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles.
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The CEO of Google's DeepMind says systems as smart as humans are almost here—and that the job market will undergo "scary" changes.
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted.
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.
Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.
Sat, 31 May 2025 12:30:00 +0000
If you use Google’s apps and AI, it’s worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down the plans and how much they cost.
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:40:00 -0400
The system automatically learns to adapt to unknown disturbances such as gusting winds.
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:10:00 -0400
The winning essay of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize puts health care disparities at the forefront.
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:45:00 -0400
Coactive, founded by two MIT alumni, has built an AI-powered platform to unlock new insights from content of all types.
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A team of MIT researchers founded Themis AI to quantify AI model uncertainty and address knowledge gaps.
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:45:00 -0400
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:50:00 -0400
SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:30:00 -0400
Courses on developing AI models for health care need to focus more on identifying and addressing bias, says Leo Anthony Celi.
Wed, 28 May 2025 16:15:00 -0400
Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.
Wed, 28 May 2025 16:00:00 -0400
PhD student Sarah Alnegheimish wants to make machine learning systems accessible.
Tue, 27 May 2025 16:11:00 -0400
Through collaborations with organizations like BREIT in Peru, the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society is upskilling hundreds of learners around the world in data science and machine learning.
Tue, 27 May 2025 10:00:00 -0400
The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.
Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.
Wed, 21 May 2025 16:35:00 -0400
Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.
Mon, 19 May 2025 16:30:00 -0400
Sendhil Mullainathan brings a lifetime of unique perspectives to research in behavioral economics and machine learning.
Thu, 15 May 2025 10:30:00 -0400
Trained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.
Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.
Tue, 13 May 2025 16:35:00 -0400
With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.
Tue, 06 May 2025 12:15:00 -0400
The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.
Mon, 05 May 2025 16:15:00 -0400
A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.
Mon, 05 May 2025 16:00:00 -0400
“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.
Fri, 02 May 2025 15:30:00 -0400
New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators.
Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new method helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions.
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:20:00 -0400
New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship.
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:00 -0400
MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:00:00 -0400
Ultraviolet light “fingerprints” on cell cultures and machine learning can provide a definitive yes/no contamination assessment within 30 minutes.
Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400
Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics.
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:00:00 -0400
Using diagrams to represent interactions in multipart systems can provide a faster way to design software improvements.
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0400
Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones.
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:00:00 -0400
TactStyle, a system developed by CSAIL researchers, uses image prompts to replicate both the visual appearance and tactile properties of 3D models.
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400
The renowned designer embraces generative AI to preserve and propel her legacy.
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:40:00 -0400
A quarter century after its founding, the McGovern Institute reflects on its discoveries in the areas of neuroscience, neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, brain-body connections, and therapeutics.
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:50:00 -0400
A new method from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab helps large language models to steer their own responses toward safer, more ethical, value-aligned outputs.
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
The approach maintains an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract secret information.
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:35:00 -0400
At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels.
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project.
Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.
Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:45:00 -0400
Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential.
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.
