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Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep
MIT News AI published: Founded by Jake Donoghue PhD ’19 and former MIT researcher Jarrett Revels, the company is creating an AI-driven platform to help diagnose and treat disease.
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
MIT News AI published: A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
MIT News AI published: Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
MIT News AI published: A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
MIT News AI published: The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.
MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
MIT News AI published: New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”
MIT News AI published: A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.
Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere
MIT News AI published: Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI
MIT News AI published: As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.
New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning
MIT News AI published: Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance.
Working to advance the nuclear renaissance
MIT News AI published: Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.
Evaluating the ethics of autonomous systems
MIT News AI published: MIT researchers developed a testing framework that pinpoints situations where AI decision-support systems are not treating people and communities fairly.
MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials
MIT News AI published: A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.
Seeing sounds
MIT News AI published: Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.
MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape
MIT News AI published: An AI model generates novel proteins based on how they vibrate and move, opening new possibilities for dynamic biomaterials and adaptive therapeutics.
AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly
MIT News AI published: This new approach adapts to decide which robots should get the right of way at every moment, avoiding congestion and increasing throughput.
Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
MIT News AI published: MIT Sea Grant works with the Woodwell Climate Research Center and other collaborators to demonstrate a deep learning-based system for fish monitoring.
Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
MIT News AI published: By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.
How to create “humble” AI
MIT News AI published: An MIT-led team is designing artificial intelligence systems for medical diagnosis that are more collaborative and forthcoming about uncertainty.
What’s the right path for AI?
MIT News AI published: Conference speakers discussed the unfolding trajectory of AI and the benefits of shaping technology to meet people’s needs.