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The company’s public relations staffer sent me a spreadsheet of the supposed benefits experienced by the participants, including improved vision...

1 Meta has promised to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety caseThe company says it will...

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If OpenAI stops reinforcing reward hacking in its models—and that’s a huge “if”—that would be a huge step forward. But...

A surprising—maybe troubling—number of people who work in big tech also keep their kids at arm’s distance from technology. They...

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Increasing Complexity In some cases, whether an LLM can complete a puzzle is a matter of scale. One study from...

So everyone’s concerned about these negative effects, and everyone said that when we got to these thresholds, that we would...

Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture, and...

As a first-generation student from a small town, Gohar Khan ’21 had to navigate the college admissions process largely on...

That’s why in 2012 Stach founded LaunchX, a for-profit entrepreneurship program that helps high school students build practical skills through...

For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands...

When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in caregiving for older adults, he didn’t...

The circuit detects temperature within 0.01 °C and can be powered with a 1.55-volt coin cell battery. A strategy known...

Most vaccines generate not only antibodies but also T cells that can activate antigen-presenting cells, which help tell the immune...

Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues...

When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of...

During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate,...

A double major in computer science and math, Shen credits lessons from MIT—along with a lifelong passion for drawing—with shaping...

Showcases like this event are important because they invite the public to experience robots up close. And exposure matters, as...

More recently, they’ve uncovered an eDNA gold mine: spiderwebs. The naturally sticky stuff traps material from its arachnid creators, crumbs...

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