Startup accelerates progress toward light-speed computing

Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today’s age of ubiquitous computing.…

Brain surgery training from an avatar

Benjamin Warf, a renowned neurosurgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, stands in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. More…

An AI humanoid robot startup raised $675 million — including from Microsoft and OpenAI

We might be getting closer to having human coworkers. Figure, an AI company developing humanoid robots…

3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI

The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, co-directed by MIT professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor,…

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…

Weekend Business News Roundup February 24, 2024

Capital One announced Monday that it is acquiring the credit card company Discover in an all-stock…

How Much Does LinkedIn Premium Cost in 2024 and Is It Worth It?

With the recent spates of tech industry layoffs resulting in fierce competition among applicants, and the…

Business Attitudes Towards AI in the Workplace 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come on to the business scene in a major way in recent…

Safer skies with self-flying helicopters

In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to…

Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows

The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester. With support from…