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The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver […]

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee Report.  The report’s findings emphasized MIT’s role and responsibility in the new nuclear age, which called for doubling down on

Agentic AI is transforming how organizations use generative AI, moving beyond prompt-response interactions to autonomous systems that can plan, execute, and complete complex multi-step tasks. While early proof of concepts in Agentic AI spaces excite business stakeholders, scaling them to production requires addressing scalability, governance, and security challenges. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an Agentic AI

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you’d actually do with it remains open.

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Building effective reward functions can help you customize Amazon Nova models to your specific needs, with AWS Lambda providing the scalable, cost-effective foundation. Lambda’s serverless architecture lets you focus on defining quality criteria while it handles the computational infrastructure. Amazon Nova offers multiple customization approaches, with Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) standing out for its ability to teach

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It’s an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.

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