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Celebrating the advancement of technology leadership through policy analysis and guidance

The MIT Technology and Policy Program marked 50 years with a symposium exploring its history of education, research, and impact — while looking ahead to technology policy issues of the future.

November 25, 2025

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How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

AI supports the clean energy transition as it manages power grid operations, helps plan infrastructure investments, guides development of novel materials, and more.

November 24, 2025

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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

The virtual VideoCAD tool could boost designers’ productivity and help train engineers learning computer-aided design.

November 19, 2025

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The science of consciousness

Through the MIT Consciousness Club, professors Matthias Michel and Earl Miller are exploring how neurological activity gives rise to human experience.

November 18, 2025

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Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance

Five-year collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to accelerate the energy transition and scale new innovations.

November 18, 2025

Bigger datasets aren’t always better

MIT researchers developed a way to identify the smallest dataset that guarantees optimal solutions to complex problems.

November 18, 2025

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Q&A: On the ethics of catastrophe

Jack Carson, an MIT second-year undergraduate and EECS major, is the recent winner of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.

November 17, 2025

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Four from MIT named 2026 Rhodes Scholars

Vivian Chinoda ’25, Alice Hall, Sofia Lara, and Sophia Wang ’24 will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

November 15, 2025

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Phil Sharp-Alnylam Fund for Emerging Scientists to support MIT biology graduate students and faculty

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals establishes named fund in honor of its co-founder, an MIT Institute Professor and Nobel laureate.

November 12, 2025

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Teaching large language models how to absorb new knowledge

With a new method developed at MIT, an LLM behaves more like a student, writing notes that it studies to memorize new information.

November 12, 2025

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Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence

Associate Professor Phillip Isola studies the ways in which intelligent machines “think,” in an effort to safely integrate AI into human society.

November 11, 2025

MIT Energy Initiative launches Data Center Power Forum

MIT faculty and MITEI member company experts address power demand from data centers.

November 7, 2025

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Giving buildings an “MRI” to make them more energy-efficient and resilient

Founded by a team from MIT, Lamarr.AI uses drones, thermal imaging, and AI to help property owners make targeted investments in their buildings.

November 7, 2025

Charting the future of AI, from safer answers to faster thinking

MIT PhD students who interned with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Summer Program are pushing AI tools to be more flexible, efficient, and grounded in truth.

November 6, 2025

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MIT researchers propose a new model for legible, modular software

The coding framework uses modular concepts and simple synchronization rules to make software clearer, safer, and easier for LLMs to generate.

November 6, 2025

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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

The science of consciousness

Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance

Bigger datasets aren’t always better

Q&A: On the ethics of catastrophe

Four from MIT named 2026 Rhodes Scholars

Phil Sharp-Alnylam Fund for Emerging Scientists to support MIT biology graduate students and faculty

Teaching large language models how to absorb new knowledge

Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence

MIT Energy Initiative launches Data Center Power Forum

Giving buildings an “MRI” to make them more energy-efficient and resilient

Charting the future of AI, from safer answers to faster thinking

MIT researchers propose a new model for legible, modular software

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