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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.
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:44:25 +0000
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:31:37 +0000
Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.
Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:36:28 +0000
Only four of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts.
Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:47:51 +0000
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:13:45 +0000
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
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Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
WIRED’s advice columnist pushes back on the idea that ChatGPT and other generative AI software tools foster connections with other people.
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:21:04 +0000
A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.
Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:40:26 +0000
GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.
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.
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.
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.
