Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

The viral social network for bots reveals more about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.

Our AI writers make their big bets for the coming year—here are five hot trends to watch.

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation.

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers.

A cheaper, safer, and more abundant alternative to lithium is finally making its way into cars—and the grid.

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

They argue we need a revolution—and more and more influential scientists, funders, and politicians are taking them seriously.

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

Questions surround their effects on brain health, pregnancy or long-term use.

It's low but, um, never zero.

The more we move, the more our muscle cells begin to make a memory of that exercise.

The president also blamed the painkiller Tylenol for autism, but the evidence doesn’t stack up at all.

Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real justification for research investment is what we get for our money. Here’s what economists say.

With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work.

While letting AI take the wheel and write the code for your website may seem like a good idea, it’s not without its limitations.

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t.

Our AI writers make their big bets for the coming year—here are five hot trends to watch.

Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really scale up the sector.

“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper.

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

Global shifts, advancing tech, and data center demand: Here’s what’s coming in 2025 and beyond.

The US still has no federal privacy law. But recent enforcement actions against data brokers may offer some new protections for Americans’ personal information.

What happens in the US, however, will depend a lot on the incoming Trump administration.

The Space Launch System is facing fresh calls for cancellation, but it still has a key role to play in NASA’s return to the moon.

Police drones, rapid deliveries of blood, tech-friendly regulations, and autonomous weapons are all signs that drone technology is changing quickly.

How Big Tech, startups, AI devices, and trade wars will transform the way chips are made and the technologies they power.

As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest challenge of our age.

Managing risk as we reach for the stars.

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Dennis Whyte considered giving up on fusion research. But as this excerpt from the new book “Hope Dies Last” recounts, Whyte instead had a brainstorm—and challenged his students to bring the idea to life.

Aomawa Shields ’97 was equally enticed by the prospect of studying stars and the dream of becoming one herself. Today, she draws from her exploration of acting and astronomy to search for life on other planets.

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial housekeeping.

Tom Zeller’s new book sheds light on one of the world’s most confounding and agonizing ailments.

At the turn of the 20th century, a commission set out to replace the old West Boston Bridge with “one of the finest and most beautiful structures in the world”—and hired two MIT alumni to make it happen.

Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.

Chemical signatures in ancient rocks point to precursors of squishy sea creatures.