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A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll…

MIT News · 16 Jul 2026 · 06:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Helping AI models to meet the real world

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Systems using artificial intelligence to enhance forecasting, planning, and decision-making in businesses have been proliferating in recent years, but in many cases, they lack the detailed, specific information about the organization itself, limiting the usefulness of those tools. Devavrat Shah, a principal investigator at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), faculty member with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and member of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), has been focused on how to design methods that can handle second-by-second decision-making using limited…

MIT News · 14 Jul 2026 · 22:25 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

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Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, is an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren’t yet the do-it-all assistants you’d want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience. The challenge is that it’s labor-intensive and time-consuming to physically teach these machines so many actions across different settings. “One natural idea is to use simulation as a training ground. While there has been significant progress over the last few years in the physics engines that…

MIT News · 13 Jul 2026 · 20:50 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Today, OpenAI announced GPT‑5.6, which will become the new preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot—in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat and Cowork. For Microsoft 365 customers, the update brings OpenAI's latest flagship model series at the time of this announcement into productivity tools people use every day, helping them create, analyze, and collaborate with more capable AI assistance across workstreams. GPT‑5.6, OpenAI’s latest flagship model series at the time of this announcement, delivers more useful work from every token, with stronger performance per dollar and on demand capability for the most…

OpenAI · 9 Jul 2026 · 15:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?

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The deployment of automated software systems called AI agents has recently exploded. A November 2025 report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Boston Consulting Group found that 35 percent of surveyed businesses had already deployed AI agents, while another 44 percent planned to implement agentic AI soon. To understand the fundamentals and potential impacts of these increasingly popular tools, MIT News spoke with Phillip Isola, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…

MIT News · 30 Jun 2026 · 17:30 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

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We’re beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings strong capability at our lowest cost. GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most robust safety stack to date. We strengthened protections for higher-risk activity, sensitive cyber requests, and repeated misuse, and spent multiple weeks finding weaknesses, pressure-testing our system, and hardening it against real-world attacks. We believe in broad access, and…

OpenAI · 26 Jun 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

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Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way these highly fragmented systems are designed and deployed often causes inefficiencies that can lead to wasted computation, energy, and cost. To improve efficiency, researchers from MIT and Microsoft developed an intelligent system that streamlines the process of designing agentic workflows and automatically optimizes how those workflows are implemented. With this new method, a developer can describe what they want…

MIT News · 25 Jun 2026 · 06:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

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New tools, partnerships, and the full version of GPT‑5.5‑Cyber to move past vulnerability discovery and onto the acceleration of end-to-end patch automation. We’re expanding Daybreak⁠ to help democratize patching vulnerable software at machine speed. For example, we’ve applied our models to discover and generate patches for critical vulnerabilities⁠ in major browsers, network infrastructure, and operating systems such as FreeBSD and the Linux kernel. To scale the impact of these capabilities: Codex Security: We’re launching an update to the Codex Security plugin⁠, which implements what we’ve learned from internal and customer…

OpenAI · 22 Jun 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy, and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials…

MIT News · 19 Jun 2026 · 20:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

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In an NEJM AI study, experts used an OpenAI reasoning model to reanalyze 376 previously unsolved cases and surface leads for 18 diagnoses. Even with genomic sequencing, many people with rare diseases never receive a clear genetic diagnosis. Roughly half remain undiagnosed after extensive testing and specialist review. Their medical data may contain clues but finding them can require sifting through thousands to millions of possible genetic variants, fragmented clinical records, and rapidly changing scientific literature. As new gene-disease relationships, case reports, and classification evidence accumulate, unsolved cases can become…

OpenAI · 18 Jun 2026 · 10:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

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Using realistic conversation contexts to better estimate undesired model behavior before release. Before releasing a new model, labs need to understand not just what it can do, but how it is likely to behave in real-world use, including where it might introduce new risks. This becomes even more important as capabilities increase. As part of our pre-deployment safety review, we leverage targeted evaluations, red-teaming, and other checks to understand model behavior. We’ve now started using a method for simulating model deployments before they happen, which adds a complementary signal: a…

OpenAI · 16 Jun 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment

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Use your existing Oracle cloud commitment to give teams access to OpenAI’s most advanced models and Codex, without creating a new purchasing path. Updated August 7, 2026: Oracle customers can now purchase access to OpenAI models through the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work through Oracle Marketplace, using existing procurement processes and eligible Oracle Universal Credits. Oracle is among the first to offer customers access to purchase these offerings through its marketplace. OpenAI offerings on Oracle Marketplace are currently…

OpenAI · 10 Jun 2026 · 22:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗