Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 23/07/2026 13:00

NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit

The viability of orbital data centers hosting the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs) remains hotly contested. But enormou…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 23/07/2026 12:00

MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 21/07/2026 17:41

Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”

Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the u…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 22/07/2026 17:00

Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artifici…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 21/07/2026 12:00

Chinese AI Model Uses Less Muscle for Coding Tasks

Zain Hasan, an AI engineer at Together AI, has taught himself to use AI coding assistants while still keeping an eye on cost. He directs dif…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 17/07/2026 17:25

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 16/07/2026 16:09

How to Make an Invisible Drone

There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 16/07/2026 04:00

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 16/07/2026 12:00

Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while op…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15/07/2026 20:25

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15/07/2026 15:35

The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities

ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Jo…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 14/07/2026 20:25

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using l…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 15/07/2026 13:00

This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces

Shaped like dogs, stars, and the Mona Lisa, you could mistake these DNA structures for fun-shaped macaroni if they weren’t only nanometers w…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 14/07/2026 18:00

Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace s…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 14/07/2026 15:59

How I Turned AI to the Dark Side

Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructio…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13/07/2026 19:10

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Students from the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic help local governments and other vulnerable organizations defend against digital threats.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13/07/2026 15:15

The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating

Software engineering jobs are under threat from artificial intelligence. Some applicants are fighting back by using AI in the interview proc…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13/07/2026 18:50

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, wher…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13/07/2026 10:19

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13/07/2026 04:00

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outp…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 09/07/2026 12:00

Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail

The large language models (LLMs) that form the basis of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can generate uncannily hu…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 09/07/2026 15:50

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigur…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 08/07/2026 11:00

AI Models Overthink Problems—and It’s a Security Risk

Large language models (LLMs) that can think through problems step-by-step have significantly increased the scope of tasks that AI can tackle…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 07/07/2026 17:25

How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications

A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software application…