AI

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.  With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget, these conversations were especially timely. Over the course of just two days, participants met with […]

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon coding. However, as these models grow in capability, they also grow in size and hosting multi-trillion parameter architectures requires purpose-built infrastructure, high-end GPU compute, and optimized serving frameworks. On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

Connecting user search intent with relevant ad experiences across channels is a longstanding challenge in digital advertising. Advertisers need sophisticated ways to reach audiences based on their demonstrated interests and behaviors, particularly their search activity, which is one of the strongest signals of user intent. Traditional keyword expansion approaches often struggle with outdated vocabulary, limited

Without the ability to track machine learning (ML) model prediction quality, organizations only realize they have issues when their customers complain or when they conduct spot checks, which jeopardizes customer trust. This post introduces inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints. It provides a governance layer that sits above production ML inference pipelines to continuously

This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. With GPT-5.6 on Amazon Bedrock, you get the newest generation of OpenAI frontier models with pay-per-token pricing, AWS security and governance controls, and usage that counts toward your existing AWS commitments. The family

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

The problem: Prompt engineering at scale is still painful Migrating prompts to new models on Amazon Bedrock, or optimizing them for your current model, is still one of the most manual parts of building a generative AI application. Say you have built a deployed generative AI application. It works. Your prompts are tuned, your outputs