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Roundtables: Unveiling The 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

Listen to the session or watch below Watch a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature conference for AI leadership. Subscribers got an exclusive first look... Read more »

Caring for service dogs

While service dogs might be best known for guiding the blind, Canine Companions trains dogs to do such things as open doors for wheelchair users or alert deaf people to doorbells, fire... Read more »

Inventor recalls eye imaging breakthrough

“It uses infrared light that’s barely visible compared to the bright flash of fundus photography [another common method of eye imaging] and provides a lot more information—three-dimensional rather than two-dimensional information—at higher... Read more »

AI at MIT

Hannes Stärk, the fourth-year PhD student at CSAIL who built BoltzGen, says the model works because it actually learns—drawing inferences from the data it is trained with and then producing novel ideas... Read more »

Get ready for hotter, muggier, stormier summers

In typical conditions, the atmosphere’s layers get colder with altitude, and a heat wave that warms the air at ground level will trigger convection: The warmer, lighter air will rise, prompting colder... Read more »

Analog computing from waste heat

The researchers used these structures to perform a simple form of matrix vector multiplication, the fundamental mathematical technique machine-learning models like large language models use to process information and make predictions. The... Read more »

Early life may have breathed oxygen earlier than believed

Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that... Read more »

This tool could show how consciousness works

How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln... Read more »

A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection

“What’s remarkable is that intelectin-2 operates in two complementary ways. It helps stabilize the mucus layer, and if that barrier is compromised, it can directly neutralize or restrain bacteria that begin to... Read more »

The new word in home construction could be “plastics”

The design they came up with is similar in shape to the traditional wooden trusses that support flooring, with beams that connect in a pattern resembling a ladder with diagonal rungs. To... Read more »