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AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral
Some Instagram creators are using Google’s Veo 3 and racking up millions of views on AI…
Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare…
Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it…
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic,…
Accelerating scientific discovery with AI
FutureHouse, co-founded by Sam Rodriques PhD ’19, has developed AI agents to automate key…
Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that…
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say…
I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn’t Terrible
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From…
OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new…
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the…
OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of…
The Summer Adventures : Camping Essentials
If the smoldering heat is bothering you, better make some plans for some quality time…
Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely
MIT CSAIL researchers combined GenAI and a physics simulation engine to refine robot…
MIT and Mass General Brigham launch joint seed program to accelerate innovations in health
The MIT-MGB Seed Program, launched with support from Analog Devices Inc., will fund joint…
Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against…
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for…
Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13…
AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs…
Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds
The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand…
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect…
Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces…
Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space
A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space…
Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It’s Too Late
Unmanned vehicles are increasingly becoming essential weapons of war. But with a potential…
LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments
Researchers find nonclinical information in patient messages — like typos, extra white…
Researchers present bold ideas for AI at MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium kickoff event
Presentations targeted high-impact intersections of AI and other areas, such as health…
‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the…
Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and…
What Big Tech’s Band of Execs Will Do in the Army
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined…
How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College
College counselors in the US are too overworked to meet with every student. A new wave of…
Robot eyes are power hungry. What if we gave them tools inspired by the human brain?
A hexapod robot navigating outdoors. Adam D Hines, Queensland University of Technology;…
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the…
Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools
From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout…
This AI Model Never Stops Learning
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way for large language…
Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren’t Doing It
Traditional and indie authors are flooding #WritersTok with videos of them editing their…
Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning
Caitlin Morris, a PhD student and 2024 MAD Fellow affiliated with the MIT Media Lab,…
A sounding board for strengthening the student experience
Composed of “computing bilinguals,” the Undergraduate Advisory Group provides vital input…
Unpacking the bias of large language models
In a new study, researchers discover the root cause of a type of bias in LLMs, paving the…
Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology
MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium marks a decade of developing data that improve…
Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5
Here’s a closer look at what’s new in Gemini 2.5 for audio dialog and generation. Gemini is…
A Father’s Day Gift for Every Pop and Papa
It’s Father’s day and also Men’s Health Month. What better way to…
This Chatbot Tool Pays Users $50 a Month for Their Feedback on AI Models
On Yupp, chatbot users earn cash by saying which of two prompts they prefer—info that has…
The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries…
Unpacking AI Agents
Need to make a dinner reservation or change your flight? Now AI agents can do that for you.…
Inexpensive AI Agents Threaten Entry-Level Coding Jobs
AI tools cost a fraction of human labor—and may undermine the jobs needed to build…
