Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI expert has warned that replacing entry-level jobs with the technology could be a long-term strategic blunder. Research scientist Andrew McAfee, who ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, "America Is Losing the Innovation Race: Why the Future of Science Might Be Chinese." ...

New York City is a city of walkers. More trips are made on foot than by car (41% versus 28%) and the city’s “80X50” climate action plan envisions that 80% of all trips by 2050 will be made either on ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is unlike other large universities, and not just because, according to its inexplicably ebullient president, Sally Kornbluth, the football players “thank you ...

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: Deliver the fastest on-device ...

Friction keeps the system moving. MIT’s research shows that 5% of GenAI pilots succeed by embracing resistance, both human and organizational, as well as technical, as the crucible of adaptation and ...

Tony Dokoupil is the anchor of the new "CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil." He previously served as co-host of "CBS Mornings" and anchored "The Uplift," a weekly series spotlighting positive and ...

A year ago, Andrew Lo asked ChatGPT for its opinion on Moderna Inc., a biotech stock that soared during the pandemic era. The advice: sell. He didn’t. The stock plunged. Now Lo, a finance professor at ...

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...

MIT professor Bill Aulet chuckled to himself when he decided to invite his old friend and famed software programmer and investor Mitch Kapor to give a speech about entrepreneurship at the school this ...