‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...

I Study How College Learning Works, Here’s What I’m Telling My Own Teen

My daughter is a junior in high school, which means our family is deep in the college search with campus visits, SAT nerves, ...
Science Daily

MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars

MIT researchers have shown that one fuel can power both chemical and electric spacecraft thrusters, potentially transforming what small satellites can do. The approach combines quick bursts of speed ...
The Atlantic

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...
The New York Times

‘Deep Water’ Review: Prepare for an Emergency Landing, With Fins

The action director Renny Harlin combines two different kinds of disaster movies, with lots of gory shark scenes. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...
WGBH

Spotting deepfakes: MIT Museum says ‘look again, look closely’

The MIT Museum's AI: Mind the Gap exhibit equips visitors with tools they can use to navigate AI in the real world. Facing a wall of brightly lit screens, Steven Schorr and his grandson Simeon Pernick ...
The Conversation

Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill

Just slowing down gives you time to question and reflect. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of ...
Virginia Business

General Dynamics’ Deep promoted to president

Danny Deep, General Dynamics‘ executive vice president of global operations, has been promoted to president of the Reston-based Fortune 100 government contractor, the company announced Friday. Deep ...
The Harvard Crimson

A Lesson in Teaching Feminism from MIT

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Isabel C. Hogben ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall. When it comes to Women ...
Science Daily

MIT finds traces of a lost world deep within planet Earth

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...