Terafab’s $16.8B, ‘largest building on Earth’ is the loudest example of a broad shift — from renting critical infrastructure to…
The Trust Machine: From Ancient Barter to Agentic Commerce
Every economy solves the same problem — how strangers exchange value without being cheated. Ancient trade ran on social reputation;…
A Modular Nanorobot 150x Smaller Than a Hair — and Why Its Design Is the Real Story
University of Basel researchers built a modular nanorobot ~150x smaller than a human hair that self-assembles from a magnetic propulsion…
MIT’s ‘SceneSmith’: AI Agents Build Virtual Worlds So Robots Can Rehearse
MIT CSAIL and the Toyota Research Institute built SceneSmith, which uses three AI agents to assemble realistic 3D rooms —…
Training AI Is Ruinously Expensive. MIT Taught Models to Shrink Themselves While They Learn.
MIT CSAIL's CompreSSM compresses AI models during training rather than after, using control theory to shed dead weight early —…
AI Keeps Acing Math Tests. MIT Just Built a Harder One — 30,000 Olympiad Problems From 47 Countries.
MIT CSAIL, KAUST and HUMAIN built MathNet — 30,000+ expert-authored Olympiad math problems from 47 countries and 143 competitions, a…
AI’s Overconfidence Is a Training Bug. MIT Cut It by 90% by Rewarding ‘I Don’t Know.’
MIT CSAIL's RLCR teaches language models to output calibrated confidence, cutting calibration error up to 90% with no loss in…
MIT Made Private, On-Device AI Training 81% Faster — and No Data Leaves the Device
MIT researchers sped up privacy-preserving federated learning by about 81% with a framework called FTTE, letting smartwatches, phones and sensors…
MIT’s New Statistics Chief Says AI Safety Is, at Its Core, a Math Problem
MIT's incoming Statistics and Data Science Center director Alexander Rakhlin reframes AI safety as a statistical and mathematical problem.
Explainable Medical AI Helps Novices Mainly by Making Them Defer, MIT-Led Study Finds
MIT-led Nature Medicine study: explainable-AI tools lift novice diagnosticians mainly via deference, while clinicians do best with no explanation at…