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After months of controversy about the privacy of its smart glasses, Meta has unveiled the next iteration of its product lineup. At its Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced all the new glasses the company is putting out into the world. Its popular Meta Ray-Ban glasses are now in their third […]

Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Five fellowships will be awarded every

Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution as enterprise networks face diminishing returns from static dashboards, pushing logistics directors towards autonomous execution. Predictive demand models display recommendations, yet human planners still clear every action. Multi-agent systems replace that approval stage across targeted operational boundaries. Instead of waiting for weekly scheduling runs, independent software

NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday, including preliminary progress toward the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize problems. The work, conducted with Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge using a mix of AI models including Codex, was overshadowed by controversy after OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem shortly

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. AI doomers have recently traded one worst-case scenario for another, putting aside a potential software