Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Five fellowships will be awarded every […]

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy nonnegotiable safety, physical, or task-specific requirements, known as hard constraints. The researchers developed a method that helps generative models meet these strict […]

The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve. Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT, is on a mission to address both problems with a single solution. The company has developed an AI-powered robotic manufacturing […]

Researchers created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical scan. This method could make it easier for clinicians to precisely pilot minimally invasive surgical tools, leading to faster and safer procedures. Clinicians perform many minimally invasive surgeries using real-time X-rays to help them steer […]

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence.  Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program will turn its focus to fiction and memoir, and to the particular power of stories to help us understand ourselves […]

Prompt injection is an attack or failure mode in which untrusted content changes an AI system’s behavior by supplying instructions that compete with the intended task. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

Agent memory is not one database or an endlessly growing prompt. It is a designed system for retaining working context, episodes, facts, and learned procedures—and retrieving the right information at the right time.

AI-generated music has quickly evolved from an experiment into a growing part of the music industry. AI tools can create complete songs from simple text prompts within seconds, and streaming platforms now receive thousands of AI-generated tracks daily. Despite its rapid growth, many listeners have negative opinions about AI music. AI Music’s Rapid Growth on […]

President Donald Trump on September 19, 2026, used his Truth Social account to propose renaming artificial intelligence and, in a second post later that day, to announce that he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar in the near future. A Poll on Renaming Artificial Intelligence In the first post, displayed […]

xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its latest speech-to-text model, on September 18, 2026, holding batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio while describing the model as twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0. Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is built on the audio foundation model behind Grok Voice. According to xAI, Grok Voice […]

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on September 18, 2026 unveiled Virginia’s Data Center Accountability Framework and signed Executive Order 22, a package of immediate state directives on data center transparency, environmental review, and energy costs that also establishes a rapid-response task force on artificial intelligence. In its announcement, the governor’s office described the framework as the […]

Ben Bernstein, Manager of Cybersecurity Advisors at Huntress, is a cybersecurity professional with more than a decade of experience spanning technical support, systems administration, client success, technical account management, and security advisory leadership. He began his career in hands-on IT roles, progressing from helpdesk work to systems administration before moving into account management and client […]

Anthropic said on September 18, 2026 that it is partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI, with each company expecting to invest at least $1 billion in building capacity in the area over the next five years. The partnership will be led by Faculty, Accenture’s specialist AI business, and will include evaluating and […]