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Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year? | MIT News
People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming…
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AUTOMATION
The Hollywood Color Nerd Who Shot ‘Knives Out’ Explains His Viral iPhone Camera App
Steve Yedlin is a certified color nerd. He almost immediately starts explaining “the math” behind his passion for color science.…
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Lean models start beating the giants on cost per task
Stablecoin rails quietly become bank infrastructure
Solo founders land real institutional funding
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Autonomous agents close support tickets without a human
Core banking goes API-first, one branch at a time
Synthetic data starts outpacing real data in training runs
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AUTOMATION
Making machines that can listen | MIT News
“That little synthesizer had a function that allowed you to make your own sounds, and I became completely…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google Expands AI Search Ads Globally and Adds Gmail-Powered Autofill to Chrome as Search Growth Slows
Google is pushing its AI features further into both its browser and its advertising business, introducing Gmail-powered autofill…
FINTECH
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era | MIT News
For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and…
STARTUPS
Microsoft Posts Record $92.3B Quarter as AI Demand Lifts Azure to $33.2B
Microsoft has reported record quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, marking its tenth consecutive…
AUTOMATION
Sparxity Announces Multi-Million-Dollar Sparse-Native Computing Deployment at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Insider Brief Sparxity, formerly SpiNNcloud, has deployed a multimillion-dollar computing system at Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre for sparse…
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Bleu Robotics Raises €5M in Funding to Speed Humanoid Robot Deployment in Factories
STARTUPS
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
AUTOMATION
Google Pixel Watch 5 Sale: Its Lowest Price Yet (2026)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows | MIT News
FINTECH
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
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Read past the headline number
A rate cut or a funding round means little without the base it’s measured against. Check the comparison period before you react.
Follow the compute, not the hype
Model announcements move fast; the compute and data behind them move slower. That’s usually where the real signal sits.
Automation ships in stages
Most “fully autonomous” launches run as a human-reviewed pilot for months before the claim is actually true.
New rails still need old guardrails
Stablecoins and instant payments inherit the fraud and compliance risk of the systems they replace, not the other way round.
Runway math beats valuation math
A markup means little if it buys fewer months than the round before it. Ask about runway before you ask about the multiple.
Defaults shape default behaviour
Most people never touch a tool’s default settings. If you’re building one, that default is the product you’re actually shipping.
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FINTECH
Rime Launches Customizable Speech-to-Speech AI Model for Enterprise Voice Applications
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AUTOMATION
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights | MIT News
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