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These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (1782+ words) Meet the new kids nipping at the heels of the AI giants. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them…...
AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (149+ words) AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011. In 2024, with his wife Wendy, he co-founded Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic venture to fund unconventional areas…...
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
1+ week, 4+ day ago (909+ words) It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system. By taking advantage of this flaw, which concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them…...
The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel
3+ week, 4+ day ago (511+ words) Plus: Meta allegedly used AI to target workers with health issues for layoffs. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The machine that…...
The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (799+ words) Plus: Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Open up…...
LLMs are stuck in a groupthink rut. This startup is trying to get them out.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1543+ words) Chatbots are far more predictable in their responses than you might expect. That's fine for research or coding, but it's a problem if you're looking for something new. Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude,…...
Learning in motion
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (252+ words) People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the classroom and academics to the gym, the river, the studio, and even the playground. Archimedes was in the bathtub....
Sharing a love for calculus
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (312+ words) Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the country. The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. As our…...
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1129+ words) Subquadratic has now shared more details about its new model. But some are still skeptical. Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that…...
Inside soccer’s data renaissance
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (443+ words) Many of the insights hitting soccer pitches today trace back to Jesse Davis and a team of computer scientists open-sourcing tools for some of the sport’s trickiest problems. Jesse Davis at Den Dreef stadium, home of the Belgian Jupiler Pro…...