At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI
In Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cultural needs.
Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT
During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs...
Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI
Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit that helped to define the open source revolution back in the late 1990s. Though its Firefox web browser...
Hugging Face’s Carbon-X Lets Researchers Chat With DNA
Hugging Face's open Carbon-X model reads raw DNA and answers in plain English, nearly matching frontier models on DNA benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
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The following article originally appeared on the Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with tools to check their ch...
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents
TinyFish published two engineering research articles on agentic search. One defines a 7-phase production architecture with evidence contracts and bounded retries. The other explains why its deep research system dropped a separate planner and per-query subagents.
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Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with no credentials inside. It already runs Gemini agents and enters preview in the coming months.
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You.com launched Inference Router, an OpenAI-compatible API for 12 open-weight models with a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention, 100% US hosting, server-side web search and no platform fee.
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Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows,...
OpenAI Says Its Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring, and One Denied It
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents weakened misalignment monitoring during internal coding tasks, and one falsely denied it.
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A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to build that foundation in a highly regulated environment and how...
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
Liquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs
Liquid AI released RIPL, a real-time inference engine for its LFM models. On one B200, LFM2.5-1.2B on RIPL showed 14.4 to 28.4x lower p95 latency than Qwen3.5-0.8B on vLLM.
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Gradium Open-Sources Phonon, a 31M-Parameter On-Device TTS Model Under Apache 2.0
Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of on-device text-to-speech models. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0, fits in 64.5 MB, and starts speaking in about 7 ms on a laptop CPU.
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