
Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.
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If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one. The nuclear industry is historically cautious and risk averse—understandable given the possible catastrophic consequences of an accident or a mistake. Even…
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By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.
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This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will lear…
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An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sponsors.
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The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI.
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For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to predict what customers would buy, and shipped data pipelines that moved informatio…
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A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue —keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue. Though most autonomous agents have systems to k…
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On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking, and—naturally—wurst. Having attended several of these events in the past, the ma…
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“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling.
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With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.
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Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.
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The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testi…
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Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four critical technologies enabling silicon design autonomy Understand how autonomou…
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Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence. In this Robots Gui…
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Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too. Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic’s Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rov…
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In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.
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Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.
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Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocumented repo, broken dependencies, and half-finished readme.txt? Well, now you ca…
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This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company. Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load. The air cooling system needed to move it brings cost and co…
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This article is brought to you by VicOne. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears…
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