A study by Pattie Maes and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab found that people who used AI chatbots to evaluate news headlines were initially 21% more accurate at detecting fake news, but after four wee…
Don Yansen '63 founded Kiwi Health in October 2024 after participating in an MIT AgeLab study, developing a voice-controlled wristband to help older adults use technology more easily. The device, whic…
MIT Technology Review reports that Cheshire Academy teachers use generative AI to prepare class materials and a traffic light system to guide student AI use, while nearly 90% of the 13,000 humanoid ro…
Nearly 90% of the more than 13,000 humanoid robots delivered globally last year were made in China, and the country is showcasing them at public events like a robot carnival in Shanghai to promote emb…
Cheshire Academy, a private boarding and day school in Connecticut with about 400 students in grades 9 through 12, is piloting a traffic light metaphor to guide students on when AI use is appropriate,…
A new MIT Technology Review report highlights that children vastly outperform AI language models in learning efficiency, with an LLM processing a hundred thousand times more words than a person experi…
Children can learn human language to perfect fluency with a fraction of the data required by large language models, a gap known as the data efficiency gap, according to cognitive scientists including …
Reflect Orbital's plan to launch space mirrors that beam sunlight to Earth could brighten the night sky as much as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers, according to a new study…
Insilico Medicine named five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as inventors on a patent for a pulmonary fibrosis drug that its generative AI platform proposed, highlighting a US legal rule that …
A new opinion piece argues that debates over AI consciousness are a distraction that lets companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta escape liability for harms caused by their systems. The pie…
Fetcherr, a company specializing in generative AI market models, is helping airlines like Virgin Atlantic optimize pricing and revenue management in real time. Dominic Kennedy, senior vice president o…
A new study finds that AI agents still cannot conduct open-ended AI research, tempering claims that recursive self-improvement is imminent. The research, reported by MIT Technology Review, suggests AI…
A new research project called the AI Observatory reveals that people use AI for more sensitive behaviors than major AI companies report, with significant differences between models: users turn to Anth…
A new independent research project called the AI Observatory, co-led by Stanford Trustworthy AI Research (STAIR) Lab PhD candidate Anka Reuel, found that nearly half (48%) of real AI conversations wou…
A new study led by Peter Kirgis and Sayash Kapoor at Princeton University found that AI agents are not yet capable of conducting open-ended AI research, as they lack the judgment and creativity needed…
Flock, the police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, announced changes to its platform on August 13, 2026, to prevent misuse after the Washington Post …
MIT Technology Review reports that Moxie, a 15-inch-tall robot designed to assist neurodivergent children, faced service shutdowns after its maker went out of business, exposing the promise and pitfal…
Moxie, an AI-powered companion robot made by Embodied, Inc., is marketed to help neurodivergent children practice social skills, but after six years with 10-year-old Xander, the robot's functionality …
MIT Technology Review's The Download newsletter reports that a Japanese team led by Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamanashi, used a CRISPR-based approach to remove th…
A new report from Pew Research Center, published in February 2026, finds that 57% of U.S. teens have used chatbots to search for information, 54% for schoolwork, and 47% for fun, while only 12% used t…