Back when artificial intelligence was still poorly understood outside research labs, Ray Kurzweil was already frustrated with how narrowly it was being discussed. In a 1991 interview with Computerworld, he pushed back forcefully against claims…
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A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance along curved surfaces. While working on one…
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Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing | MIT News
Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective Jan….
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Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows | MIT News
Antonio Torralba, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and faculty head of artificial intelligence and decision-making at MIT, has been named to the 2025 cohort of Association for…
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Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout
Tinder is turning to a new AI-powered feature, Chemistry, to help it reduce so-called “swipe fatigue,” a growing problem among online dating users who are feeling burned out and are in search of better outcomes.
Introduced last quarter, the…
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3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs | MIT News
In the pursuit of solutions to complex global challenges including disease, energy demands, and climate change, scientific researchers, including at MIT, have turned to artificial intelligence, and to quantitative…
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‘Companies that are not set up to quickly adopt AI workers will be at a huge disadvantage’: OpenAI Sam Altman warns firms not to fall behind on AI – but notes ‘it’s going to take a lot of work and some risk’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has laid out his vision for the future of how humans and AI will work together, but warned on potentially severe effects for those businesses which have fallen behind.
Speaking at the Cisco AI Summit 2026, Altman outlined…
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ChatGPT was having some issues — here’s everything we know
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Here’s a look at Down Detector where you can see the pretty quick spike near the bottom of the hour for issues with ChatGPT and OpenAI.
(Image credit: Future) OpenAI confirms an…
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ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequioia at a $11 billion valuation
Voice AI company ElevenLabs said today it raised $500 million in a new funding round led by
Sequoia Capital, which was an investor in the startup’s last secondary round through a tender. Sequoia partner Andrew Reed is joining the company’s…Continue Reading
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Mistral’s New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
Mistral AI has released a new family of AI models that it claims will clear the path to seamless conversation between people speaking different languages.
On Wednesday, the Paris-based AI lab released two new speech-to-text models: Voxtral Mini…
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