Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sort…
Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi Jinping - ET Telecom
Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi Jinping ET Telecom
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of bei…
Pope tells Catholic legislators to put family at heart of AI policy - The Catholic Leader
Pope tells Catholic legislators to put family at heart of AI policy The Catholic Leader
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, all under Apache 2.0. Every model exposes a thinking / low-effort / non-thinking…
India AI policy: Pragmatism before sovereignty - The Economic Times
India AI policy: Pragmatism before sovereignty The Economic Times
Madison Board of Education to Discuss Technology Framework, AI Policy and Personnel at BOE Meeting - TAPinto
Madison Board of Education to Discuss Technology Framework, AI Policy and Personnel at BOE Meeting TAPinto
Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. This week, Liquid AI released Pipette…
MIT tech powered the Artemis II livestreams
During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate, sending grainy, low-quality images and videos to E…
Your brain on AI
Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy. …
Seeing through murky waters
When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras struggle to see through. Often, the only…
Taking your temperature from the inside
Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to sw…
Amping up T cells to target cancer
Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers. In many patients, howev…
AgeLab research inspires an A I startup
When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in caregiving for older adults, he didn’t plan to launch another company. But when he heard participants t…
A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention
For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue the…
Launching youth entrepreneurship
Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. “Adults always see the…
YouTuber finds niche as college admissions mentor
As a first-generation student from a small town, Gohar Khan ’21 had to navigate the college admissions process largely on his own. He founded his YouTube channel, Gohar’s Guide, t…
Addressing a sticking point in sustainable adhesives
Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture, and even sticking labels to otherwise r…
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity releases Portable Computer, packaging local models, harness, sandbox, and connectors into one system running on NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post Perplexity Ships Portable Com…
Russia used ChatGPT to run a covert influence campaign pushing pro-Kremlin narratives across the West
OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators accessed the platform thr…
OpenAI's first custom chip "Jalapeño" reportedly beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin in inference benchmarks
OpenAI showed off "Jalapeño," its first in-house inference chip, with benchmarks at the Hot Chips conference. According to SemiAnalysis tests, the chip beats Nvidia's Blackwell an…
Art and algorithms at Sotheby’s
Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen b…
Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce and all-to-all synchronize thousands of accele…
AI policy remains undecided - The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle
AI policy remains undecided The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle