The crucial human component in computing and AI
On April 30, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) initiative hosted a full-day research symposium…
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PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs
MIT, in collaboration with Georgia State University and a growing network of educational institutions, has announced expanded work under PATH (Pathways for…
The Path of a Request: A Tour of Modern Web Architecture
In less than a second, a webpage is loaded. Within that brief moment, a solitary user query could have traversed approximately ten…
Build tools, to build more
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg. YES-CODE An entire category of software, “no-code”, was built under the presumption that code is expensive, difficult, and scarce. Coding…
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
In 2026, the hype for artificial intelligence agents is louder than ever before. These semi-autonomous programs can “think” and execute well-defined tasks…
Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology
Tod Machover, the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media, faculty director of the MIT Media Lab, and director of the…
MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret…
Opus 4.8
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan. My biggest takeaways from @benedictevans: 1. We’re in 1997 for AI—it’s as big a deal as the internet or mobile,…
Media Advisory: MIT to establish regional quantum hub
MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced plans to establish the Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT, which will be open to…
I signed up for another SaaS
Ben Tossell @bentossell. design peeps, a lil help? im building interactive, animated components im using shadcn, tailwind, motion, tegaki, rough-notation. i want…