“We need a Manhattan Project for this,” one economist says. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly ...

At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* – but one group of researchers is suggesting it may not be a black hole at all. The team says that it, and other black ...

MIT estimated the computing power for 809 large language models. Total compute affected AI accuracy more than any algorithmic tricks. Computing power will continue to dominate AI development. It's ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

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Facing a $300 million shortfall, MIT is tightening its budget by slashing the quietest corners of its Cambridge campus: the libraries. Three of MIT’s five physical libraries will be shuttered or ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is unlike other large universities, and not just because, according to its inexplicably ebullient president, Sally Kornbluth, the football players “thank you ...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprang to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere. While still taking core classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ...