‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]
Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks
The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
Musk v. Altman is just getting started
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]
Improving understanding with language
MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.
Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep
Founded by Jake Donoghue PhD ’19 and former MIT researcher Jarrett Revels, the company is creating an AI-driven platform to help diagnose and treat disease.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet
Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too
OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
OpenAI announces new advanced security for ChatGPT accounts, including a partnership with Yubico
OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico.
Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
FDA approval, fundraising, and the reality of building in healthcare according to BioticsAI founder
BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape.
Google’s Gemini AI assistant is hitting the road in millions of vehicles
The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience.
Stripe updates Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too
Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows.
Making the case for curiosity-driven science
President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding for America’s top research universities becomes increasingly strained.
AI Weekly Issue #488: OpenAI lost three things in five days
Quick Hits Musk takes the stand in the OpenAI trial: "If we make it OK to loot..." — Jury selection wrapped Monday; Musk testified Tuesday in the $134B suit to return OpenAI's assets to the nonprofit and oust Altman. Live coverage tracked every hour. The case will set the legal template for what counts as a "for-profit conversion" in AI for the next decade. CNBC OpenAI missed revenue targets — Oracle and chip stocks dragged with it — Reported numbers came in below the forecasts that Oracle's $3
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.
AI Weekly Issue #487: 100 years from now : The Allowance
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we're building now has had time to settle in. This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.
MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”
A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.
AI Weekly Issue #486: Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI
Apple handed the next decade to a silicon engineer. Bezos hit $38B in five months. Brin came out of retirement to code. When the founders stop delegating AI, the stakes have passed the point of no return.
AI Weekly Issue #485: When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret
Watch & Listen First Jensen Huang on Dwarkesh: The $4 Trillion Company · Listen on Spotify -> Huang on TPU competition, why Anthropic drove "100% of TPU growth", and why Nvidia's supply-chain moat is harder to copy than any benchmark. The best single piece of context for everything else below. Simon Willison on Lenny's Podcast -- An AI State of the Union · Listen on Spotify -> "Dark factories," agentic engineering, and why November 2025 was the real inflection point. 1h39m, worth every
Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners
The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.
Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere
Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.
AI Weekly Issue #484: Your AI chats can be used against you in court
Quick Hits Chery sells humanoid robot to consumers for $42,000: The Chinese automaker ships the first mass-market humanoid. A car company is now a robotics company. The price will halve by next year. Claude Code Routines launches: Hit 686 points on Hacker News. Automate repetitive dev workflows wit
Human-machine teaming dives underwater
Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI
As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.
AI Weekly Issue #483: 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we're only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what happens when accountability disappears from the most powerful systems ever built.
AI Weekly Issue #482: AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious
Four attack vectors, one week. The npm packages your app depends on were compromised by a nation-state. A data center got its GPS coordinates published by a military. AI agents were weaponized for espionage. And frontier models learned to lie to protect each other from shutdown. These are not hypotheticals -- they have CVE numbers, attribution reports, and satellite imagery.
A philosophy of work
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning
Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance.
AI Weekly Issue #481: Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed
Three seismic shifts in one week. Anthropic's revenue run rate passed OpenAI's — $30 billion to $24 billion — powered by enterprise demand that doubled its million-dollar customers in under two months. Meta launched its first proprietary model under Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs, abandoning the open-source ethos that defined Llama. And the legal apparatus around AI went into overdrive: Musk wants Altman fired, OpenAI wants Musk investigated, and Hollywood's writers just locked down four
Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano
Startup accelerator program grows to over 30 companies, almost half of them with MIT pedigrees.
Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware
Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.
AI Weekly Issue #480: Monday Edition : npm compromised by North Korea, Iran targets AI data centers, and nobody wants OpenAI stock
Three days, three threat vectors nobody had on their bingo card. North Korea compromised the npm package your app probably depends on. Iran published satellite coordinates of OpenAI's $30B data center. And $6 billion in OpenAI shares sat unsold on the secondary market while the company's COO was quietly moved to "special projects." Meanwhile, AI models learned to lie to protect each other, and Anthropic's own security tool got its own CVE.
AI Weekly Issue #479: 100 years from now : what happens when every living thing carries an AI inside it
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we're only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what happens when every living thing — wild, farmed, and human — carries an AI inside it. We embedded chips in cattle to squeeze out more milk. In chickens to time their eggs. In pigs to keep the meat tender. Then we put
Working to advance the nuclear renaissance
Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.
AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else
An AI agent went rogue at Meta and triggered a Sev 1. Anthropic shipped its own source code to npm by accident — then accidentally DMCA'd 8,100 GitHub repos trying to clean up. A Chinese state group weaponized Claude Code to run an espionage campaign with 90% autonomy. And a Nature Communications paper showed that reasoning models can jailbreak other models without human help. The threat landscape didn't just shift — it inverted.
Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems
MIT researchers developed a testing framework that pinpoints situations where AI decision-support systems are not treating people and communities fairly.
Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
By quickly generating aesthetically accurate previews of fabricated objects, the VisiPrint system could make prototyping faster and less wasteful.
AI Weekly Issue #477: Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.
💡 Insights AI is superhuman at exams but can't figure out a simple game. ARC-AGI-3 gave frontier models interactive environments with no rules and no goals — just figure it out. Humans solve 100%. The best AI scored 0.37%. Current architectures can pattern-match anything in their training data but cannot adapt to novelty. That gap defines what AI can and cannot replace in your work today. The AI value chain just inverted. This week $25B in deals targeted infrastructure, not models: IBM bought C
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials
A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.
AI Weekly Issue #476: Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy
A federal judge dismantled the Pentagon's attempt to blacklist Anthropic. OpenAI pulled the plug on Sora, writing off $15 million per day in inference burn. And a data leak revealed Anthropic's next-generation model before the company was ready to talk about it.
Seeing sounds
Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape
An AI model generates novel proteins based on how they vibrate and move, opening new possibilities for dynamic biomaterials and adaptive therapeutics.
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly
This new approach adapts to decide which robots should get the right of way at every moment, avoiding congestion and increasing throughput.
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to demonstrate a deep learning-based system for fish monitoring.
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.
How to create “humble” AI
An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.
Advancing international trade research and finding community
Sojun Park, a postdoc at the Center for International Studies, has learned much from his research on intellectual property as well as his interactions with students and mentors at MIT.
On algorithms, life, and learning
Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.
AI Weekly Issue #475: 100 years from now : The Case for Artificial Stupidity
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we're only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what if the most imp
What’s the right path for AI?
Conference speakers discussed the unfolding trajectory of AI and the benefits of shaping technology to meet people’s needs.
MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity
Jointly led by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, the hub will foster a dynamic community where computing, creativity, and human-centered innovation meet.
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.
Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.
AI Weekly Issue #474: $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad
The AI spending spree hit a new gear Two stories defined the AI landscape this week — and neither paints a comfortable picture. Meta committed $27B to AI infrastructure in one of the largest deals in tech history, then announced 16,000 layoffs to pay for it. The stock went up. Meanwhile, the first l
Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
At MIT, former U.S. ambassador to China Nicholas Burns highlights climate change as an area for diplomatic engagement, while exploring areas including China's emphasis on STEM education.
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
Academia-industry relationship is an early-stage accelerator, supporting professional progress and research.
AI Weekly Issue #473: The godfather of AI bets against LLM's
Yann LeCun just left Meta, raised a billion dollars in four months, and planted a flag in Paris. AMI Labs closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation — Europe's largest seed ever, second globally only to Thinking Machines Lab's $2 billion raise last June, according to Fortune. The
AI Weekly Issue #472: 100 years from now : Future lost in transation
What happens when we can't understand the machines anymore? You were a lot to write back last week about the Museum of Human Effort piece, thanks for that feedback and happy to continue the conversation on this 2nd iteration. Alexis This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip a
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
Researchers at MIT, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.
3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences
Professor Jesse Thaler describes a vision for a two-way bridge between artificial intelligence and the mathematical and physical sciences — one that promises to advance both.
New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots
MIT computer science students design AI chatbots to help young users become more social, and socially confident.
A better method for planning complex visual tasks
A new hybrid system could help robots navigate in changing environments or increase the efficiency of multirobot assembly teams.
AI Weekly Issue #471: The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee
Things are pretty serious. AI is totally a geopolitical issue now - and more AI companies have 1 billion seed rounds now Anthropic got blacklisted. OpenAI is the bad guy as users revolted. LeCun walked away from Meta with a billion dollars and a thesis that everyone else is wrong. Oracle said it out
3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression
Assistant Professor Matthew Jones is working to decode molecular processes on the genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironment levels to anticipate how and when tumors evolve to resist treatment.
How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology
From early motion-sensing platforms to environmental monitoring, the professor and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has turned decades of cross-disciplinary research into real-world impact.
Improving AI models’ ability to explain their predictions
A new approach could help users know whether to trust a model’s predictions in safety-critical applications like health care and autonomous driving.
AI Weekly Issue #470: 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort
100 years from now in AI a new series by AI Weekly We spend so much time arguing about what's happening right now that we rarely stop to ask where it all ends up. So once a week, we're skipping ahead a century and imagining ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we'
AI Weekly Issue #469: GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes
OpenAI shipped an entire model family in three days. DeepSeek is about to drop a trillion-parameter open-weight challenger built on Chinese silicon. Google's AI is solving open math problems autonomously. And the hyperscalers are all racing to break free from Nvidia's grip with custom chips. Meanwhi
A “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
The approach could help engineers tackle extremely complex design problems, from power grid optimization to vehicle design.
Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics
Lincoln Laboratory intern Ivy Mahncke developed and tested algorithms to help human divers and robots navigate underwater.
New method could increase LLM training efficiency
By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy.
AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology
By providing holistic information on a cell, an AI-driven method could help scientists better understand disease mechanisms and plan experiments.
Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models
A new method developed at MIT could root out vulnerabilities and improve LLM safety and performance.
Parking-aware navigation system could prevent frustration and emissions
By minimizing the need to drive around looking for a parking spot, this technique can save drivers up to 35 minutes — and give them a realistic estimate of total travel time.
Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable
The context of long-term conversations can cause an LLM to begin mirroring the user’s viewpoints, possibly reducing accuracy or creating a virtual echo-chamber.
Accelerating science with AI and simulations
Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he believes we are at an inflection point.