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Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces…

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of…

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s…

Fridays With Bob

When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could…

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Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize

Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.

Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy…

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

ShieldFont is available today if you’ve got copy that needs protecting

Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic…

EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge

LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and…

GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video…

Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to?

Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song…

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team…

Microsoft’s cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest

Capex spending? What? Me worry?

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to…

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the…

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be…

Perplexity’s tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives

Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable

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College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought

Busted! A college professor who was tired of reading AI responses to essay questions found a unique way to determine if his…

Looking back on Microsoft’s FY26: From AI experimentation to Frontier Transformation

Throughout this past fiscal year, customers across every industry and segment moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for…