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OpenAI’s agents reached a proposed solution in 88 hours. But the human research that came before, and the controversy that followed, raise a harder question: what actually counts as an AI discovery?
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In Part 1 of this series, we covered the foundational principles of prompt engineering in Amazon Quick: specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework for complex requests. Those principles apply universally. In this post, we go component by component, showing you…
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AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in a $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today. World Labs justified the deal in a statement saying that AI development required…
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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…
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GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models. Parallel builds developer infrastructure for AI agents that do knowledge work over the web. Its tools support everything from…
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AISI and EvalEval have previously collaborated on research that began at a joint workshop alongside NeurIPS 2025, and feedback from the Institute has helped shape the Every Eval Ever (EEE) schema. This next phase of the collaboration puts that shared infrastructure into…
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César de la Fuente and his lab probe the genomes of living and extinct organisms for molecules that could help fight drug-resistant infections. Drug-resistant microbes including bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses are a growing global threat. About five million deaths in 2021…
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OpenAI is committing $5 million to support independent research on how generative AI affects the lives and development of young people ages 13–17. OpenAI is committing $5 million to support independent research on how generative AI affects the lives and development of…
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For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed. This can only happen through an informed public debate about the capabilities, risks and safeguards of highly capable AI systems. People everywhere need to understand the likely future…
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