A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These systems, which the…
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries. MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, have announced a new research agreement to jointly pursue advancements and innovations for enhancing the performance…
MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed engineering honors. The Washington Award is conferred to “an engineer(s) whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of…
Personalizing LLMs is essential for applications such as virtual assistants and content recommendations, ensuring responses align with individual user preferences. Unlike traditional approaches that optimize models based on aggregated user feedback, personalization aims to capture the diversity of individual perspectives…
Object-centric learning (OCL) is an area of computer vision that aims to decompose visual scenes into distinct objects, enabling advanced vision tasks such as prediction, reasoning, and decision-making. Traditional methods in visual recognition often rely on feature extraction without explicitly…
Modern bioinformatics research is characterized by the constant emergence of complex data sources and analytical challenges. Researchers routinely confront tasks that require the synthesis of diverse datasets, the execution of iterative analyses, and the interpretation of subtle biological signals. High-throughput…
Large language models (LLMs) generate text step by step, which limits their ability to plan for tasks requiring multiple reasoning steps, such as structured writing or problem-solving. This lack of long-term planning affects their coherence and decision-making in complex scenarios.…
Apple is removing its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for iCloud from the United Kingdom with immediate effect following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data. The development was first reported by Bloomberg. ADP for iCloud is an…
OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool. The social media listening tool is said to likely originate from China and is powered…
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday revealed that a “sophisticated” attack led to the theft of over $1.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its Ethereum cold (offline) wallets, making it the largest ever single crypto heist in history. “The…