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April 18, 2025
MIT’s McGovern Institute is shaping brain science and improving human lives on a global scale
A quarter century after its founding, the McGovern Institute reflects on its discoveries in neuroscience, neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, brain-body connections, and therapeutics.
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
A new technique automatically guides a large language model toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or format is being used.
A faster way to solve complex planning problems
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
A new method from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab helps large language models to steer their own responses toward safer, more ethical, value-aligned outputs.
New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data
The approach maintains an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract secret information.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports
The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.
Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy
At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels.
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project.
Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges
This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.
Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential.
Agentic AI And Building Connections With Customers In The Moments That Matter
Qualtrics’ new Experience Agents are set to help brands create better connections with their customers in the moments that matter.
The Prototype: NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery
This week’s edition of The Prototype looks at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for BCIs, talking to dolphins with AI and more.
Everyone’s Getting Better At Using AI: Thoughts On Vibe Coding
Here are some recipes for smarter AI use in enterprise.
Google Guilty Again, Meta On Trial, OpenAI Social, IR Rolls Up Touchcast AI
Google ruled guilty of ad-tech monopoly, Meta defends old acquisitions, OpenAI builds a social platform, and Infinite Reality adds AI avatars with Touchcast deal.
What Agentic AI Could Mean For Security Operations
Agentic AI is reshaping security operations by reducing alert fatigue and enabling faster threat response—ushering in a new era of autonomous, transparent SOCs.
Tech With Respect: AI And Indigenous Community Power
For communities historically sidelined in technological revolutions, AI brings new risks with outsized consequences. Prosocial AI can make a positive difference.