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On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders in technology and business across Massachusetts. The list includes eight MIT affiliates including President Sally Kornbluth, Prof. Daniela Rus (director of CSAIL), Prof. Regina Barzilay, Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, Prof. Max Tegmark, Ana Bakshi (executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship), Katie Rae CEO and Managing Partner of Engine Ventures), and Senior Lecturer Brian Halligan, along with a number of MIT alumni.In addition to recognizing individual leaders, the Power Players coverage highlights MIT’s research labs, its culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,…

In a sense, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is getting what he wanted.Amodei has long argued that AI is becoming dangerously powerful — and thus, that regulatory restrictions on the technology are urgently needed. In an essay published last week, Amodei wrote that the release of cutting-edge AI models “should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety” if they fail to meet strict security standards.Alas, asking the current US government to assume sweeping new regulatory authorities is a bit like wishing on a monkey’s paw (or, for the zoomers in the audience, a “One Wish Willow”): Days after…

Forget stickers and GIFs, a new app called Pixi Garden wants you to send interactive augmented reality characters through iMessage instead. Pixi Platforms launched the messaging native app today, letting you create and send a “pixi” — an intelligent AR character that comes alive through your friend’s phone camera and reacts to whatever is actually happening around them. What makes a Pixi different from a sticker or filter? Pixi Garden A pixi is not a static sticker or filter. It runs on an onboard AI brain that lets it behave, react, and stay aware of context. Machine learning sensors watch…

A claimed breach at Novo Nordisk is putting more than patient privacy under the microscope. Hackers from FulcrumSec say they stole 1.3TB of data from the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy after spending more than two months inside its systems, according to Reuters. Novo Nordisk has confirmed unauthorized access to a limited number of internal IT systems, but the full scope and authenticity of the hackers’ claims remain unverified. The incident points to a broader security problem for healthcare and pharmaceutical companies: clinical trial data, developer credentials, proprietary research, and internal AI assets are becoming prime targets. Hackers…

The companies have yet to confirm the news. Elena Chertovskikh/Getty Images In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump claims Apple has finalized a deal with Intel to design and manufacture chips in the United States. In the previous months, reports came out that the companies had already signed a preliminary deal for the partnership, but they have yet to confirm the news. “Stupid presidents took our economy for granted, and let Taiwan and others steal our semiconductor factories,” Trump said in his post.  The Wall Street Journal reported back in May that the companies had reached some sort of…

On the Netflix show Legends, AI processing was used to enhance a dimly lit office scene to bring up the contrast. I had a similar experience watching scenes from Awake on Netflix, which takes place mostly at night. I could still see the main characters even in darker areas of the scene. YouTube videos of WIRED interviews looked clear and colorful as well. In comparison, low-cost televisions seem more like a computer display with stark bright colors playing the same clips.Samsung also leveraged AI to improve sound quality. In time for the World Cup, Samsung’s new AI audio feature helps…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Antonio Neri opened the company’s annual user conference, Discover, this week in Las Vegas with a manifesto for the AI era. Though all events now discuss the changing role of AI, Neri offered a different perspective on AI through the lens of information technology. The industry is moving from building IT systems to architecting intelligence. In that shift, the enterprise is no longer just an operator of technology but rather a designer of outcomes, a much different role for the people sitting in the audience. Neri leaned into the architectural metaphor throughout the keynote, and…

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Whether you’re playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect information. You know what cards you’re holding in the poker game, and you also know how much above the home’s asking price you can afford, but you don’t know your opponent’s hand in the card game or how high the other home buyer is willing to go. A paper co-authored by MIT researchers and presented in April at the International Conference on Learning Representations in Rio De Janeiro won’t tell you…

SoftBank is pivoting to AI-powered cybersecurity. But can OpenAI’s models fix an industry that’s structurally broken, or is it just the new hype cycle? The irony is almost too perfect. Just days after massive breaches at Novo Nordisk and Oracle exposed the fragility of our digital infrastructure, SoftBank is stepping in with a new cybersecurity tool powered by OpenAI’s models. The pitch seems seductive: leverage gen AI to detect threats faster and smarter than human analysts ever could. It’s exactly what the market wants to hear- a silver bullet to save us from the recurring nightmares of data theft and…