In San Francisco, a new entrant is betting that robotics and artificial intelligence can speed up how roads, utilities, and other projects get built. Gritt announced its launch with $32.4
MIT has introduced a new student competition that asks a simple but high-stakes question. Can artificial intelligence shorten the design-build-test loop so engineers can deliver better results faster? The initiative,
Anthropic is warning about the risks of recursive self-improving artificial intelligence, yet it is also being pushed into the spotlight by talk of a blockbuster stock listing. Technology writer Matthew
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, an MIT professor emeritus known for shaping modern optimization and artificial intelligence, has died at age 83. His death closes a chapter for a scholar whose work
MIT has appointed Jesse Thaler as the new director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, placing a leading theorist at the helm of one of the institute’s core research units.
A new analysis argues that quantum computers could soon deliver clear gains for machine learning and related algorithms, challenging years of doubt in the field. The finding arrives as labs
Astronomers announced the discovery of a rocky exoplanet that appears to host an atmosphere and orbits within the habitable zone of its star. The finding, shared by the research team,
The hard part of building an AI agent is not the model. It is the job, the tools, and the guardrails. Here is a practical 2026 roadmap for shipping agents that work.
The story of the week is simple: the US-China AI race is accelerating, and panic is a poor plan. The uproar over China’s Kimi K3 model and a separate OpenAI