MIT Technology Review

The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

NFL Player Turned MIT Math Professor Urschel Visits Bowdoin Campus

Taback, the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, was announcing the visit of John Urschel to campus. Formerly an offensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, Urschel played three seasons in the ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians issue a major challenge to AI: Show us your work

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...
VentureBeat

MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt ...
Time

Suspect in Brown University and MIT Shootings Found Dead. Here’s What We Know

A team of FBI agents arrive on the scene at the Extra Space Storage facility on December 18, 2025. The Brown University shooting suspect was found dead inside a storage unit there. Reporter A man ...
PBS

MIT professor’s fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...
PBS

An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities near Boston say they have no suspect in custody in the death of an MIT professor shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday ...
CNN

An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a ...
Fast Company

MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers

A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that AI might be poised to replace a lot more jobs than previously forecast. According to researchers, a hidden mass of data reveals ...
The Boston Globe

Former MIT scientist funded by Epstein made racist and sexist claims in private emails

Joscha Bach, an AI researcher, worked at the MIT Media Lab from 2014 to 2016. He was hired in large part because of Epstein’s donations. Joscha Bach, a former MIT Media Lab researcher whose work there ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...