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ResearchSolving the solvent problem
By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.
ResearchNVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US
NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure…
FundingWhy R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well.What…
ResearchAI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen…
ProductsThe latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026
ResearchThe benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise
Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware
Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
IndustryAlexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.
Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign…
ResearchOrchard: 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…
IndustryInside 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…
IndustryFridays 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…
VideosThis is Gemini Robotics 2 🤖
IndustryDaniela 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.
FundingConnecting 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
ResearchEchoverse: 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…
ResearchEvoLib: 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…
IndustryAre 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?
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