The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) during their formative years enabled them to […]
September 5, 2026Nigel Farage (Alamy) 3 min read2 hr Two of Nigel Farage’s closest allies have stepped down pending the outcome of an internal party investigation after a report broadcast by Channel 4 alleged that the pair arranged party donations that breached UK electoral rules. On Thursday, Verbatim and Channel 4 aired an investigation appearing […]
September 4, 2026Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […]
September 3, 2026Insider Brief Applied Intuition and Humain announced a strategic collaboration to build a national-scale physical AI framework in Saudi Arabia, beginning with autonomous trucking. The companies plan to deploy thousands of driverless trucks across major Saudi logistics corridors by 2030, with potential expansion into robotaxis ports mining and other industries. Applied Intuition said its Self-Driving […]
September 2, 2026Content warning: This story includes references to suicidal ideation. Lisa Schrenk didn’t know it yet, as she trudged down a dirt trail last August, but her life was about to change. She’d set out late the night before with her hiking group, scrambling up Virginia’s Old Rag Mountain in darkness. They reached the peak in […]
September 1, 2026It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers perform complex mathematical operations and statistical simulations without learning how to code. These programming languages were rigid and slow. If scientists built something that really worked, […]
August 31, 2026The average household’s energy bill will rise to the highest level in three years following Ofgem’s new price cap announcement. (Alamy) 4 min read28 August Ofgem announced this week that the energy price cap would increase to the highest level in three years as the war in Iran continues to drive up […]
August 30, 2026Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its own balance sheet will contribute toward roughly a quarter of its business […]
August 29, 2026The Nordics have built a reputation for pairing deep technical rigor with a genuine focus on solving specific, high-stakes problems, and this list bears that out. Sweden contributes the largest share, with entries spanning video analytics, data observability, and driving risk insights, while Denmark brings clinical AI for radiology and elder care, and Finland and […]
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