Los Angeles Times

Three Redondo Union volleyball players are headed to MIT in historic accomplishment

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Call them the Geek Squad, the Surfer Dudes or the Genius Squad from Redondo Union High. In an unprecedented ...
ZDNet

AI agents are fast, loose, and out of control, MIT study finds

Agentic AI technology is marked by a lack of disclosure about risks. Some systems are worse than others. AI developers need to step up and take responsibility. Editor's note: This article has been ...
MIT Technology Review

Roundtables: Why 2026 Is the Year for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Watch a subscriber-only event exploring one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026—sodium-ion batteries. Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers. Listen to the session ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Brookline police report outlines daughter's account of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro death

HAS THE LATEST FROM BROOKLINE. A NEARLY 100 PAGE REPORT FROM THE BROOKLINE POLICE DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS KEY MOMENTS THAT UNFOLDED THE NIGHT. MIT PROFESSOR NUNO LOUREIRO WAS SHOT AT HIS HOME IN ...
WGBH

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...
MIT Technology Review

Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter, is here

Learn how to apply LLMs across industries in 7 weekly editions of our new free newsletter. For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...
VentureBeat

MIT’s new ‘recursive’ framework lets LLMs process 10 million tokens without context rot

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt ...
CNBC

Brown and MIT prof shooter suspect Neves Valente is found dead, authorities say

The man suspected of the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others Saturday, and killing an MIT professor days later, was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire. The ...
The Boston Globe

Colleagues and neighbors reel as investigation continues in Brookline killing of MIT professor

BROOKLINE — As investigators continued working Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an acclaimed MIT professor, stunned colleagues at the university where he worked and neighbors on the quiet Brookline ...
New York Post

Murdered MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was found in building foyer by neighbor who heard gunshots

The MIT nuclear science professor who was shot dead in his $1.4 million home was found lying on his back in the building foyer by a neighbor who heard gunshots and then called 911 along with the ...
PBS

MIT professor’s fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...