Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build…
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The Foundations of Scalable AI
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must…
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The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
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Making the case for context-aware AI
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without…
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Three things you should know about permafrost
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing,…
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AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of…
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The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
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We can do impossible things
I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s…
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Nuclear-powered spaceships
Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to…
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Exercise in a pill
We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By…
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Interspecies communication
Humans are far from the only species with a gift for gab, and our furry, feathered, and finned friends could have a lot…
Read at source →Cleaning up PFAS
Scrubbing Earth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—a.k.a. PFAS or forever chemicals—could eliminate a list of woes…
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Solid-state batteries
The rise of the lithium-ion battery, which powers everything from the smallest personal electronics to gargantuan…
Read at source →Eliminating traffic deaths
Every year, traffic crashes kill more than one million people, and they’re the leading cause of death for children and…
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?
Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or…
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Here’s the tea
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old…
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Melt it, spin it, use it again
The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT…
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A reason to eat carbs
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect…
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Robotic therapy for stroke patients
Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists…
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Taking a swing at a pickleball startup
In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged…
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A good TA: priceless
These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980. One is my very…
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Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far away
Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her…
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A champion for brain injury patients
Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute…
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A cleaner path to rare earth metals
Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family…
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Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon
Large language models are set to go lunar. A computer capable of running AI software is one of the payloads aboard…
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The new economics of enterprise AI
Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about…
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The Download: the claim shaking up AI and the internet’s agent problem
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AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating…
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How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster
Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen…
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A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged…
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These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat
In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in…
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Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox…
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“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a…
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The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents
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Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling…
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AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly…
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