Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

Social media platforms don't just distribute political content—they actively shape which arguments gain traction and which fade into algorithmic obscurity, creating a new mechanism of manufactured ...

The 2026 film ‘Mercy’ imagines a world where AI decides criminal justice outcomes. No matter how advanced the system, though, ethical questions remain.

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

Go-live timeline and delivery model: SDT will operate and commercialize the customer-facing service within QUREKA, while QPerfect provides and maintains the MIMIQ back end in a secure European cloud ...

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

MIT estimated the computing power for 809 large language models. Total compute affected AI accuracy more than any algorithmic tricks. Computing power will continue to dominate AI development. It's ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

TikTok has reached a deal that will allow it to keep operating in the United States, with a majority American-owned joint venture, but the terms could change the algorithm for users in the U.S. The ...