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FeaturedAI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.
AI’s rise is disrupting the ultra-low-cost smartphone market, diverting advanced memory chips from budget devi...
Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.
Waymo halts robotaxi services in five U.S. cities after a recent software update failed to prevent vehicles fr...
MIT economist Whitney Newey awarded Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
MIT economist Whitney Newey, PhD ’83, has been awarded the 2026 **Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics** for...
The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see
MIT neuroscientists uncovered how neurons in the visual cortex process visual input by analyzing synaptic resp...
Four from MIT named 2026 Searle Scholars
Four MIT researchers—Sven Dorkenwald (brain circuits), Whitney Henry (cancer therapy via ferroptosis), and alu...
Q&A: The path to a PhD in computational science and engineering at MIT
MIT’s new standalone PhD in **Computational Science and Engineering** empowers interdisciplinary research. Fir...
Steel developed at MIT is key to Formula One, Baja 1000, and MIT Motorsports
MIT-developed **Ferrium C61 steel**, a computationally designed material, has revolutionized racing—from **For...
Building AI models that understand chemical principles
MIT’s Connor Coley is pioneering AI-driven drug discovery by developing models like **ShEPhERD** and **FlowER*...
Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education
MIT’s Justin Solomon, an EECS associate professor and AI education pioneer, is appointed **associate dean of e...
Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins
Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard developed a groundbreaking single-molecule imaging techni...
GTA 6 is entirely handcrafted with zero generative AI, Take-Two CEO confirms
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick confirms *GTA 6*, set for release on **November 19, 2026**, will be e...
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic acquires Stainless, a 2022-founded AI startup specializing in automating SDK development. The tool, ...
Language development in the brain
MIT researchers reveal that the brain’s language-processing network becomes highly localized in the left hemis...
A bet that has paid off 500 million times over
MIT’s 25-year-old initiative, MIT OpenCourseWare, has empowered over 500 million learners worldwide by offerin...
Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
A pair of cybercriminal twins were apprehended after accidentally leaving a Microsoft Teams recording active, ...
Big strides in cancer detection and treatment from the tiniest technologies
MIT’s Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine celebrates a decade of groundbreaking progress in cancer detection...
Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code
Software engineering’s biggest hurdle today isn’t writing code but planning efficiently. With implementation c...
Elazer Edelman receives the 2026-2027 Killian Award
MIT’s Elazer Edelman, a pioneering cardiologist and engineer, has been awarded the 2026-2027 James R. Killian ...
Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, faces legal scrutiny over its Mississippi data center, Colossus 2, where nearly 5...
A new approach to cancer vaccination yields more powerful T cells
MIT engineers developed an innovative mRNA-based adjuvant that supercharges T-cell responses, showing promise ...
Waymo Recalls 3,800 Robotaxis, Updates Software After Texas Flood Incident
Waymo recalls **3,800 robotaxis** globally after a Texas flood incident where an autonomous vehicle drove into...
This dot-com survivor says AI buildout is more like 1997 than 1999 — and still urges investors to have more cash
A tech industry veteran compares today’s AI boom to the 1997 dot-com surge—not 1999’s peak—warning investors t...
Powerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light
MIT researchers developed an innovative **‘implosion carving’** technique to shrink hydrogel materials to **1/...
Asia's trillion-dollar titans are powering — and distorting — its fastest growing stock markets
Taiwan’s Taiex and South Korea’s Kospi are experiencing historic rallies, driven largely by AI-linked semicond...
For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
MIT researchers find that electric vehicles (EVs) offer **lower emissions and comparable costs** compared to g...
MIT student Jack Carson named 2026 Udall Scholar
MIT’s Jack Carson, a Cherokee Nation member, becomes the first MIT student to win a Udall Scholarship for trib...
