AI

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing businesses. Now he’s overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.

Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1. Zhao is the Class of 1941 Professor of Cities and Transportation at MIT. In making the announcement, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning Hashim Sarkis noted that Zhao is a

A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok’s website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.

Many companies have large volumes of paper or electronic documents that contain untapped business intelligence. With the advancement of generative AI, various large language models can be used to accurately extract relevant data from these documents. This post demonstrates an intelligent document processing pipeline that consists of both on-demand inference and batch inference options on

In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number to that choice.  Thurstone was a pioneer of “psychometrics” —

The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and Matthew Wanta. The prestigious science and technology award provides each recipient with five years of financial support — a stipend and full tuition equivalent — which gives

Teams building AI agents typically evaluate them the way they evaluate any other software: by checking whether the output matches expectations. But agents that autonomously choose tools and sequence operations across multiple sources produce behavior that output-level testing cannot fully characterize. An agent might deliver a well-structured, actionable response while hallucinating, fabricating facts because its

Amazon Quick Sight, the business intelligence capability of Amazon Quick, delivers a unified BI experience, from modern interactive dashboards and natural language querying to pixel-perfect reports, machine learning insights, and embedded analytics at scale. Amazon Quick brings together AI-powered agents for business insights, research, and automation in one integrated experience, helping teams work smarter and

Extracting structured data from unstructured documents such as invoices, contracts, tax forms, and enrollment applications is a common automation goal for organizations. Achieving high extraction precision remains a key challenge. Accuracy degrades when documents diverge from expected templates, formats vary across vendors, or scan quality is poor. With Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA), you can