Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned Thursday. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 ...

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to declining scores. Full-bore panic about fading global competitiveness. Urgent calls ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

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Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all. The Chinese start-up DeepSeek shook the industry in January 2025 with its claim that it had ...

The country’s top AI labs are undercutting US competitors and winning over developers by making their best models free. Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce ...

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is exploring ways to make it easier for faculty and students to pursue their own startups and cash in on soaring demand for artificial intelligence. The ...

Earlier this month an artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced that their AI agent had confirmed a proof of two cases of the devilishly challenging "higher dimensional sphere-packing problem." ...

The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. Open source models are ones where the weights or the parameters that determine a model ...