Recent books from the MIT community
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAIBy Karen Hao ’15PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE,
‘Bubbles’ turn air into drinkable water
Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. But the
This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you
Take this blind test to discover whether you truly prefer OpenAI’s GPT-5 or the older
How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters
The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible mark
Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that
One of the most impactful applications of MCP is its ability to connect AI coding
Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
AI is brilliant at polishing and rephrasing. But like a child with glitter glue, you
OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic
The open source framework provides the data and training recipe for building powerful computer-use agents
Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
Details are scarce on how much if any money is involved. And what does it
MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks
A new benchmark from Salesforce research evaluates model and agentic performance on real-life enterprise tasks.Read
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s
Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI
In October, a new academic conference will debut that’s unlike any other. Agents4Science is a
The case against humans in space
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they
Inside Walmart’s AI security stack: How a startup mentality is hardening enterprise-scale defense
Walmart CISO Jerry Geisler on securing agentic AI, modernizing identity, and Zero Trust for enterprise-scale
MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure
A new MIT report reveals that while 95% of corporate AI pilots fail, 90% of
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative unveils rBio, a groundbreaking AI model that simulates cell biology without