AI Is Changing Who Decides What Software Enters Your Organization
AI has become part of everyday software development. From generating APIs and writing tests to scaffolding entire applications, coding assistants are helping engineering teams solve problems and ship software faster than ever before. The productivity gains are undeniable, and organizations are rapidly embracing AI across the software development lifecycle. Much of the conversation has focused…
The Map and the Rails: Building Safe Architecture for Enterprise AI
Part one ended with a claim: enterprise AI will succeed when institutions learn how to build the loop itself. This essay is about what the loop stands on. An agent working inside a real company needs two things the company almost certainly does not have today: a map of the work, and rails for the…
AI Infrastructure Growth Is Reshaping the Cyber-Physical Threat Landscape
AI is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern infrastructure. Organizations are investing heavily in AI-powered systems, expanding data center capacity, integrating cloud platforms, and deploying automation across industrial environments. These advances are creating new opportunities for efficiency and innovation, but they are also introducing new cybersecurity challenges. The growing intersection between AI infrastructure, operational…
Why Your Biomedical RAG Is Hiding Contradictions From You
Standard biomedical RAG resolves conflicting evidence silently in roughly three of every four queries. The fix is structural, not informational — and most of the upstream complexity teams add does not help. Ask a retrieval-augmented clinical assistant a simple question — does melatonin help with jet lag? — and the literature it retrieves will not…
Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO of Conceivable Life Sciences – Interview Series
Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO, Conceivable Life Sciences – is an engineer and serial entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience spanning technology, machine learning, hardware, logistics and company building. Before launching Conceivable, he co-founded TMRW Life Sciences, where he helped develop an automated platform for managing and safeguarding frozen eggs and embryos used…
Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill
This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research. With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget, these conversations were especially timely. Over the course of just two days, participants met with…
Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize
Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems. Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it…
OpenAI Cuts API Prices on Its Two Cheaper GPT-5.6 Tiers
OpenAI lowered the API price of its two lower-cost GPT-5.6 models on July 30, 2026, cutting the cheapest tier by 80% and the mid-tier by 20% while leaving its flagship untouched. The change is logged in the company’s own API changelog and is already live on the published rate card. Per million input and output…
DataBahn Raises $40M to Build an Agentic Control Layer for Enterprise Data
DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding as it looks to expand the infrastructure enterprises use to prepare, govern and deliver data to artificial intelligence systems. Insight Partners led the round, with existing investors Forgepoint Capital, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures also participating. The investment brings the Dallas-based company’s total funding to $59…
Xsight Labs Raises $300M for Programmable AI Network Silicon
Xsight Labs said it has closed a funding round of more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, capital the fabless chip designer will spend pushing its programmable Ethernet switches and 800-gigabit data processing units further into AI and cloud networks. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the round, with Intel Capital ,…