Updates from the AI ecosystem.

One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sponsors.

Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries

As director, Bourg has focused on digital access, open and equitable scholarly publishing, and expanded support for data-intensive research.

MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country

The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI.

Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges

Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents

3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs

Martin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about entrepreneurship.

New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want

“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcomers to 3D modeling.

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations.

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT engineers have found a way to stabilize the lipid nanoparticles used to deliver RNA vaccines, which could allow the vaccines to be more widely distributed.

Welcome RL Environments to the hub

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark