Creating a versatile vaccine to take on Covid-19 in its many guises
One of the 12 labors of Hercules, according to ancient lore, was to destroy a nine-headed monster called the Hydra. The challenge was that when Hercules used his sword to...
EU approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
European Union regulators on Monday approved Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to acquire video gaming firm Activision Blizzard — giving the mega-deal a boost after it hit roadblocks in the US...
Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
Earlier this month, Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), wrote an essay in The New York Times affirming the agency’s commitment to regulating AI. But there was...
Matthew Kearney: Bringing AI and philosophy into dialogue
Matthew Kearney was drawn to MIT by the culture of its cross-country team. Growing up in Austin, Texas, he loved spending time outdoors and playing soccer, but by high school...
Elon Musk loses bid to end SEC ‘muzzle’ over Tesla tweets
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Elon Musk’s bid to modify or end his 2018 securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that required a Tesla lawyer to approve...
MIT professor to Congress: “We are at an inflection point” with AI
Government should not “abdicate” its responsibilities and leave the future path of artificial intelligence solely to Big Tech, Aleksander Mądry, the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing at MIT and...
New method accelerates data retrieval in huge databases
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalogue or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that directly determine the location where data would...
Leveraging transfer learning for large scale differentially private image classification
Posted by Harsh Mehta, Software Engineer, and Walid Krichene, Research Scientist, Google Research Large deep learning models are becoming the workhorse of a variety of critical machine learning (ML) tasks....
Mining the right transition metals in a vast chemical space
Swift and significant gains against climate change require the creation of novel, environmentally benign, and energy-efficient materials. One of the richest veins researchers hope to tap in creating such useful...
