Building connections across the research infrastructure
MIT.nano and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition gathered facility leaders and technology professionals from across the nation to explore ways to...
Why one-off AI training will not prepare teachers
Across K–12 education, districts are moving quickly to help teachers understand artificial intelligence. They are offering workshops, creating guidanc...
Survey: Most Parents Want Students to Use AI in School — With Strong Safeguards
Parents want schools to teach AI — but 4 in 10 teachers say they’ve had no training at all.
Powering up for a pivotal moment
From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of to...
Global Ransomware Attacks Rise 23% in Q3
Global ransomware activity increased 23% in the third quarter of 2026, with organizations in North America and Europe accounting for the largest propo...
IDC Survey Finds Significant Gap Between AI Spending and Measurable Financial Returns
Nearly 70% of organizations report a significant gap between artificial intelligence spending and measurable financial returns, according to a recent ...
Key tips for district leaders on using data to improve attendance
Chronic absenteeism has become one of the most pressing challenges facing K-12 education today. According to the American Enterprise Institute, chroni...
Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery
The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in ...
Want Students to Think With AI? Raise the Stakes.
AI tutors won’t teach students to think until the conversation itself becomes the assessment.
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?
MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Chara Podimata discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S. midterm...
School safety depends on strong community partnerships
Place yourself at the start of a school emergency. A teacher is trying to communicate what’s happening. A 911 dispatcher is gathering critical informa...
The goal isn’t to make school easier for students with dyslexia
One of the most important distinctions we can make when educating students with dyslexia is the difference between making learning accessible and simp...
Ransomware Pressure Moves Beyond Enterprise Systems to Theaten Employees' Families
Ransomware attackers are exploiting enterprises' own artificial intelligence systems and extending pressure beyond internal networks to employees and ...
AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery, Researchers Find
AI-powered vulnerability research is contributing to a sharp increase in security updates, raising concerns that IT teams could fall behind as patchin...
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era
Professor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to re...
So, you want to be a school administrator?
As an educational leadership professor, I have coached many students aspiring to transition from classroom teaching to assistant principal and princip...
Making machines that can listen
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental ...
Does an AI Pause Protect Students, or Leave Some Behind?
Artificial intelligence in the classroom comes with risk, but students must learn AI literacy.
My Preschool Students Taught Me What Educators Lose in English-Only Programs
As Head Start faces a proposal to end bilingual education, remember that children aren’t the only ones who benefit from multiple languages.
What Playgrounds Can Teach Us About AI in Schools
Deciding whether students should use AI requires balancing safety with the developmental need to learn about managing risk.
How Teachers Are Turning the Midterms Into a Nonpartisan Civics Lesson
A new survey finds young people doubt elected officials are listening, yet more plan to vote than in 2024.
Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights
Prabha Jha used her experience with MIT Open Learning’s program for senior executives to develop AI solutions for her employer, Verizon, and to write ...
The data retention challenge for online exam platforms
The shift from exam halls to online assessment platforms has quietly created a significant data management challenge.
AI, Elections and the Making of an Informed Electorate
As AI chatbots answer voters’ questions in seconds, schools need to teach students to ask where those answers come from — and to reach their own ...
Organizations Report Positive ROI on AI Investments, Yet Data Readiness and Oversight Lag Behind
Businesses are reporting benefits from artificial intelligence even as their data preparation and oversight processes remain incomplete, according to ...
At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network
A cross-section of the MIT community convened discussions on topics ranging from data centers and super pollutants to agriculture and education.
Microsoft Expands AI Security Platform to Address Security Risks from AI Agents
Microsoft is expanding the focus of its AI-powered Project Perception security platform to address the growing concern that AI agents may have access ...
Texas Instruments Announces the TI-Rover BT: Bringing Math to Life with a Calculator-Controlled Robotic Vehicle
DALLAS, Texas — October 22, 2026 — Texas Instruments (TI) today announced the launch of the TI-Rover BT, a Bluetooth®-enabled ... Read more
Sophos Launches Tool to Defend Against Shadow AI
Unauthorized artificial intelligence tools and agents are creating security risks for enterprises as AI adoption increases, according to cybersecurity...