The global health care sector is under increasing strain.  Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of […]

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run […]

A representation of one version of the new best arrangement of points on a plane with pairs separated by a unit distance. Credit: Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. By Melissa Lee, Monash University Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial […]

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 June and 31 July 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 2 June 2026 Drones, Swarm Intelligence, and the Future of Cyber-Physical Societies Speakers: Franco […]

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity […]

Image Empire is an animated fairytale about the fusion of the real and the virtual within contemporary AI models. The film forms part of a research project undertaken by Alan Warburton which also includes a research paper and a series of satellite events. The film is based on doctoral research […]

With $25 million investment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MIT to build a new shared-use facility to serve as a statewide quantum toolbox.

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I can…

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we learn about AI for science, delve into world models, research transparent and trustworthy AI, and hear about the lottery ticket […]

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By Brian Jay Tang, University of Michigan and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially […]

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution.  Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three years, 76% say their current operations and infrastructure can’t support that change. They […]

Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. The future of data centres and digital sovereignty with Friederike von Franqué Can cloud infrastructure be owned and governed by the […]

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial […]

Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the […]

The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a short conversation. This month we delve into world models. What are they, and what potential do they have? Joining the conversation this time are: Sanmay Das (Virginia Tech), Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine), Tom […]

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and […]

Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor […]

Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal […]

By Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places to rob, he allegedly replied “Because that’s where the money is.” Back in […]

A new study of the postwar U.S. shows which kinds of workers historically filled new tech-enabled jobs.

In this crosspost from AI Matters – a publication of the ACM SIGAI – Ella Scallan sat down with Jonathan Frankle to discuss the lottery ticket hypothesis, for which he was awarded the 2023 AAAI/ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jonathan delves into empiricism […]

Connor Coley works at the interface of chemistry and machine learning, to discover and design new drug compounds.

MIT faculty member in electrical engineering and computer science to focus on innovation in engineering education and new pedagogical approaches.

Gloria Mendoza / The Environmental Impact of Data Centers in Vulnerable Ecosystems / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Adam Zewe Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the […]

This article breaks down the most common reasons universities struggle to act on their own data, outlines four practices that actually work, and shares what we learned building an AI analytics system for a US university. Read on to find out how questions that used to take days can be answered in […]

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More than a trillion dollars are lost every year due to system failures. To resolve them, engineers must troubleshoot outages quickly. An important task in incident response involves analyzing observability metrics, or time series data that snapshot the health of software systems. For example, an […]

Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Abbas Yazdinejad, University of Regina and Ann Fitz-Gerald, Balsillie School of International Affairs As the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) increases at an exponential rate, so do concerns about the privacy of user data. Increasingly, […]

The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

In this piece, we reflect on AIES 2025, and outline the conversations and presentations from a discussion session on LLMs in the context of clinical usage and human rights. This is a crosspost from the latest issue of AI Matters, published by the ACM SIAGI. Last year’s conference on artificial […]

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NTU Associate Professor Y.C. Chen (right) holding the new biochip, which can detect miRNA in 20 minutes using computer vision, with PhD student Fu Bowen (left). A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University Singapore has developed a new biochip that, when paired with computer vision, […]

New AI education program from MIT Open Learning debuts with AI-powered personalization and a free introductory course for learners everywhere.

Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open Learning educational initiative apart.

Alan Warburton / Medicine / © BBC / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Carsten Eickhoff, University of Tübingen Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: “Which alternative clinics can successfully treat […]

GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is parallel across time, (2) adding stochasticity directly to the state iterates for exploration, and (3) […]

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / AI Am Over It / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Misia Temler, University of Sydney With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As […]

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The latest interview in our series with the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants features Ximing Wen who is researching transparent and trustworthy AI systems. We found out more about her work, her experience as a research intern, and what inspired her to study AI. Tell us a bit about your […]

MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.

Partnership on AI has published a progress report on post-deployment governance practices pertaining to foundation models. The document, entitled “2026 Transparency Report on Foundation Model Impacts“, measures the progress of 13 foundation model providers* in publicly documenting the impacts […]

Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 5 May 2026 Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project Speaker: Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of […]

Image credits: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA). On the 31st March, our editorial team headed to the Royal Society for AI for Science. This day-long conference explored how AI is changing the nature of scientific discovery, and was hosted by […]

MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.

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.

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we meet PhD students and early-career researchers, find out how machine learning is used for particle physics discoveries, cast an eye […]

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.

A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.