Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from MIT

Is AI Making Us Less Creative? New Study Reveals What ChatGPT May Be Doing to Your Brain

A recent MIT study suggests AI may reduce creativity and cognitive engagement by encouraging reliance on technology. While AI can boost productivity, habitual use might weaken independent thinking and creativity.

International Business Times UK

AI Was Supposed to Shrink Workforces. Now Employers Say They Need More People

Some of America’s biggest companies are beginning to hire again after months of limiting headcount amid economic uncertainty and expectations that artificial intelligence could handle more work, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday.

Benzinga

How next-generation photovoltaics could contribute to electricity storage

Due to the falling price of silicon solar cells, as well as their manageable size, the sight of solar panels on household rooftops has become a familiar one. However, solar energy, as many other sustainable forms of energy, is intermittent. At peak moments, such as on sunny summer days, the…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies

The total amount of ordinary matter in our universe adds up to roughly one-tenth of what's expected. Now, scientists think they may have found some of it between galaxies.

LiveScience

MIT AI researcher warns replacing Gen Z with automation could be a billion-dollar mistake

Companies racing to replace entry-level employees with artificial intelligence may be saving money in the short term, but they could be creating a much bigger problem for the future, according to an MIT research scientist. Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Initiative on the Digital Economy, has…

The Times of India

Replacing Gen Z Workers With AI Could Be a Huge Mistake: Experts Warn Companies of Talent Crisis

AI may boost efficiency, but MIT's Andrew McAfee warns that eliminating entry-level roles could create a shortage of future leaders. Training and mentorship are key for success.

International Business Times UK

Could your aluminum foil hat actually boost certain signals instead of blocking them? The surprising MIT experiment reveals what science really says about the mind-control myth

Could your aluminum foil hat actually boost certain signals instead of blocking them? A surprising MIT experiment found that, under specific radio frequencies, the answer wasn't as simple as most people believed. But does that mean the famous mind-control claim has any scientific basis? Here's what researchers actually discovered—and why…

The Economic Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Education Dept. flags potential national security threat. Donations are pouring in to US universities from sanctioned Chinese entities

“I relate it to having kids and not parenting well.”

We Got This Covered

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

Fortune

This Solid-State Battery Fix Could Matter More For Motorcycles Than Cars

MIT researchers found a way to reduce dendrite growth in solid-state batteries, potentially unlocking lighter electric motorcycles and powersports vehicles.

RideApart

Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today's Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence

Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one…

The Times of India

Meet Apurva Shrivastava: How this MIT graduate turned missed calls into billion-dollar AI business worth over Rs 8,300 crore

Apurva Shrivastava's childhood experiences inspired him to co-found the AI startup Avoca, which answers customer calls for home service businesses. Its AI voice agents can book appointments, manage schedules and follow up on pending quotations. The startup is now valued at $1 billion, with its success rooted in solving a…

The Economic Times

He learned one lesson at his family's Michigan business. Now it's a $1 billion AI startup

Apurva Shrivastava, an Indian-origin entrepreneur who studied in MIT, founded Avoca after observing missed customer calls. This AI startup now helps home service businesses avoid lost sales and revenue. Apurva Shrivastava grew up in Michigan and helped his parents in their business, from where he originated the idea of Avoca.…

The Economic Times

'We are driving in the fog': Hundreds of economists admit they're flying blind on AI

Will AI take your job, or is it a bunch of hype? We must act now to understand what's out there, over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates say.

Fortune

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

TechRadar

DeepSeek AI review

DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a complicated choice for businesses.

Times Life

What Pets and Animals Actually Dream About: What Brain Science and REM Sleep Research Reveals

The Rat That Ran the Maze TwiceIn 2001, neuroscientists Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie at MIT wired electrodes into the hippocampi of rats and let them run a maze during the day. At night, while the rats slept, Wilson and Louie watched the same neurons fire, in the same sequence,…

The Economic Times

Meet 'the next Albert Einstein' Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her research, NASA and Jeff Bezos wanted to hire her, she turned down a $1.1 million offer

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew a single-engine aircraft at a young age when she was just 12. Her research on the spin memory effect was cited by Stephen Hawking. Pasterski declined lucrative offers from NASA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to pursue fundamental physics questions. She now leads research…

InsideEVs

This Flaw Keeps Sabotaging Solid-State Batteries. Scientists Found A Solution

Tiny metal spikes can short-circuit a solid-state battery. Researchers at MIT found a way to avoid them.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

International Business Times UK

Trump UFO Advisory Team Pushes Defence Firms to Disclose Secret Alien Tech

Trump's UFO advisory team is openly pressuring US defence giants like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to reveal any secret alien tech and join the president's latest UAP disclosure push.

The Economic Times

Elephant’s memory: MIT built a robot that could remember exactly where you left your household items

MIT's new DAAAM robot memory system marks a major advance in artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional robots, it remembers objects with their location and time. Powered by AI and spatial memory, it answers natural questions in seconds. The breakthrough could improve robots in homes, factories, hospitals, and warehouses, bringing machines closer…

Fortune

'It's not going away': The Stanford economist who called the AI entry-level jobs crisis early has the receipts

Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson is partnering with ADP's Nela Richardson on a live dashboard tracking what they found last summer: AI is eating entry-level work.

The Economic Times

He didn't just learn AI; he turned it into a Rs 1 crore-a-month business by teaching others

A 13-year-old Ayush Singh transformed pandemic curiosity into a thriving AI business, reportedly earning Rs 1 crore monthly. He bypassed traditional education, mastering AI through self-learning and practical projects. His shift to teaching AI skills via premium cohorts and building AI automation solutions for businesses like SecondBrain Labs has garnered…

Fortune

Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk

AI is eating entry-level jobs fast. And a new survey of 600 recruiters shows an MBA may no longer be the escape hatch it once was.

Fortune

Everyone agrees that you hate AI, but only Mark Cuban sees why Silicon Valley is powerless to fix it

"The big LLMs have lost the PR battle," Cuban said. "Why? Because they all suck at putting people first."

Fortune

One U.S. college is fixing tuition at just 10% of parental income: 'We’re not hiding the cost of college behind secret formulas'

At Whitman College, a private college in Walla Walla, Washington, what your parents earn each year will set the cost of your degree.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Artificial Intelligence

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.