Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar
MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their choice at Cambridge University in...
AI-generated nude deepfakes circulate at Beverly Hills middle school
A Beverly Hills middle school was rocked by photos that circulated the internet last week of real students’ faces superimposed on artificial intelligence-generated nude bodies. According to the Beverly Hills...
Google’s $700M Play Store settlement is bad for consumers: judge
A federal judge joined critics in questioning Google’s controversial $700 million settlement with all 50 US states over anticompetitive Android app store practices – pointing out it would only provide...
OpenAI says NY Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright suit
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate...
Google parent loses $70B in market value after ‘woke’ AI chatbot disaster
Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its...
Sony lays off 900 workers from PlayStation division amid videogame slump
Sony Interactive Entertainment on Tuesday said the company will cut about 900 jobs at its PlayStation unit and shut a studio in London as the videogame industry struggles to recover...
Bans on deepfakes take us only so far—here’s what we really need
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. There has been some really encouraging...
New AI model could streamline operations in a robotic warehouse
Hundreds of robots zip back and forth across the floor of a colossal robotic warehouse, grabbing items and delivering them to human workers for packing and shipping. Such warehouses are...
Parents choosing baby names that sound ‘cool’ on social media
Can you handle this baby name trend? A professional baby namer says parents are now selecting monikers that sound “cool” as a TikTok or Instagram handle. “Communication and technology are...
Generative AI for smart grid modeling
MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has been awarded $1,365,000 in funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to support its involvement with an innovative project, “Forming the...
Google to relaunch ‘woke’ Gemini AI image tool in few weeks
Google said it plans to relaunch its artificial intelligence image generation software within the next few weeks after taking it offline in response to an uproar over what critics called...
“We offer another place for knowledge”
In the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, Jospin Hassan didn’t have access to the education opportunities he sought. So, he decided to create his own. Hassan knew the booming fields...
Intuitive Machines shares plummet after Odysseus moon lander tips over
Shares of Houston-based Intuitive Machines slumped more than 25% on Monday after the space exploration firm said its Odysseus moon lander had tipped over and was resting on its side. The company,...
Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help...
Conversational AI revolutionizes the customer experience landscape
In the ever-evolving landscape of customer experiences, AI has become a beacon guiding businesses toward seamless interactions. While AI has been transforming businesses long before the latest wave of viral...
