Jordan Rudess, the GRAMMY-winning Dream Theater keyboardist, will perform two concerts at MIT's Thomas Tull Concert Hall on October 3, 2026, with jam_bot, an AI model developed with the MIT Media Lab …
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, its most powerful model yet, capable of navigating desktops, writing code, browsing the web, and executing complex workflows. The launch video opened …
Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper launched the inaugural BPS AI Educator Ambassadors cohort of 25 secondary school teachers, backed by a $1 million gift from entr…
MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences has released its Fall 2026 course list, featuring AI-focused courses such as MAS.665J 'AI for Impact: Global Ventures' led by Raskar and Vyahhi, MAS.S60 'AI Ag…
The MIT Media Lab has received a $1 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to launch the first Cloud Laboratory for Learning, a platform enabling anyone with a computer and internet…
A study by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, including Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., and Maes, P., published in the 2026 CHI Conference Extended A…
Researchers introduced AI Cohabitants, a new class of physical interfaces for agentic models that act as autonomous, characterful presences in users' lives, reversing the subservient dynamic of curren…
MIT Media Lab researchers led by Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn have introduced "neural transparency," a tool that lets users preview an AI chatbot's likely personality traits before interacti…