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Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy

Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.

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MIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing

The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.

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AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention

This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.

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Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures

Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.

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With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell

Trained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.

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Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.

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MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.

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Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds

The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.

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Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation

A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.

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New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.