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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, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000
OpenAI revealed last week the custom AI tools it uses internally. The news sent some software companies into turmoil.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:19:36 +0000
“I don’t think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer said at OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:34:23 +0000
At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:31:40 +0000
OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:43:21 +0000
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down some of the week's best stories, covering everything from Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist to the launch of OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000
As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000
OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:21:38 +0000
OpenAI’s latest app encourages users to generate a personal digital avatar and scroll AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends.
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:55:00 -0400
Assistant Professor Priya Donti’s research applies machine learning to optimize renewable energy.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400
The approach combines physics and machine learning to avoid damaging disruptions when powering down tokamak fusion machines.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Incorporating machine learning, MIT engineers developed a way to 3D print alloys that are much stronger than conventionally manufactured versions.
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0400
MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.
Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:55:00 -0400
Bakshi will help shape and scale entrepreneurship education and platform at MIT.
Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:30:00 -0400
Optimized for generative AI, TX-GAIN is driving innovation in biodefense, materials discovery, cybersecurity, and other areas of research and development.
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Explosive growth of AI data centers is expected to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers are now seeking solutions to reduce these environmental harms.
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0400
The new “CRESt” platform could help find solutions to real-world energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
By enabling rapid annotation of areas of interest in medical images, the tool can help scientists study new treatments or map disease progression.
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Economics doctoral student Whitney Zhang investigates how technologies and organizational decisions shape labor markets.
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:15:00 -0400
Department of Mathematics researchers David Roe and Andrew Sutherland seek to advance automated theorem proving; four additional MIT alumni also awarded.
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:00:00 -0400
With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
This year’s delta v summer accelerator offered an up-close look at how AI is changing the process of building a startup.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
At the inaugural MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, researchers and business leaders discussed potential advancements centered on this powerful technology.
Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0400
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models will perform based on smaller models in the same family.
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0400
MIT CSAIL researchers developed a tool that can model the shape and movements of fetuses in 3D, potentially assisting doctors in finding abnormalities and making diagnoses.
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:45:00 -0400
The research center, sponsored by the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, will advance the simulation of extreme environments, such as those in hypersonic flight and atmospheric reentry.
Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world engineering design.
Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:30:00 -0400
MIT CSAIL researchers developed SustainaPrint, a system that reinforces only the weakest zones of eco-friendly 3D prints, achieving strong results with less plastic.
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:55:00 -0400
System developed at MIT could provide realistic predictions for a wide variety of reactions, while maintaining real-world physical constraints.
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Artificially created data offer benefits from cost savings to privacy preservation, but their limitations require careful planning and evaluation, Kalyan Veeramachaneni says.
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:45:00 -0400
Professor Caroline Uhler discusses her work at the Schmidt Center, thorny problems in math, and the ongoing quest to understand some of the most complex interactions in biology.
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:50:00 -0400
VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.
Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400
New research shows the natural variability in climate data can cause AI models to struggle at predicting local temperature and rainfall.
Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400
Tools build on years of research at Lincoln Laboratory to develop a rapid brain health screening capability and may also be applicable to civilian settings such as sporting events and medical offices.
Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:30:00 -0400
New test could help determine if AI systems that make accurate predictions in one area can understand it well enough to apply that ability to a different area.
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:00:00 -0400
Solubility predictions could make it easier to design and synthesize new drugs, while minimizing the use of more hazardous solvents.
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:00:00 -0400
A new approach can reveal the features AI models use to predict proteins that might make good drug or vaccine targets.
Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:00:00 -0400
MIT engineers used a machine-learning model to design nanoparticles that can deliver RNA to cells more efficiently.
Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0400
The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.
Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:00:00 -0400
As large language models increasingly dominate our everyday lives, new systems for checking their reliability are more important than ever.
Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:00:00 -0400
The Initiative for New Manufacturing is convening experts across the Institute to drive a transformation of production across the U.S. and the world.
Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400
New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:10:00 -0400
Four new professors join the Department of Architecture and MIT Media Lab.
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Storage systems from Cloudian, co-founded by an MIT alumnus, are helping businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.
Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:40:00 -0400
By visualizing Escher-like optical illusions in 2.5 dimensions, the “Meschers” tool could help scientists understand physics-defying shapes and spark new designs.
Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
This new approach could lead to enhanced AI models for drug and materials discovery.
Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400
Groundbreaking MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:30:00 -0400
Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any robot from a single camera, without any other sensors.
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:45:00 -0400
A computer vision study compares changes in pedestrian behavior since 1980, providing information for urban designers about creating public spaces.
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0400
ChemXploreML makes advanced chemical predictions easier and faster — without requiring deep programming skills.
Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0400
The faculty members’ work comprises multifaceted research and scholarship across a wide range of disciplines.
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:00:00 -0400
MIT researchers found that special kinds of neural networks, called encoders or “tokenizers,” can do much more than previously realized.
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:00:00 -0400
The AI-enabled platform serves as a hub for MIT’s lifelong learning opportunities.
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:00:00 -0400
Language models follow changing situations using clever arithmetic, instead of sequential tracking. By controlling when these approaches are used, engineers could improve the systems’ capabilities.
Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
The simulations matched results from an underground lab experiment in Switzerland, suggesting modeling could be used to validate the safety of nuclear disposal sites.
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
The CodeSteer system could boost large language models’ accuracy when solving complex problems, such as scheduling shipments in a supply chain.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:55:00 -0400
A team of researchers has mapped the challenges of AI in software development, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new approach for testing multiple treatment combinations at once could help scientists develop drugs for cancer or genetic disorders.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers developed a way to make large language models more adaptable to challenging tasks like strategic planning or process optimization.
