Estimating suicide risk from text
When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those with a high risk of suicide. The distressed person’s language holds critical clues, and a new tool developed by scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research is designed to pick up on and rapidly evaluate those signals….
Deterministic Guardrails for AI Agents
Why it matters: Prompts cannot contain an autonomous agent. See how deterministic guardrails for AI agents enforce tool limits at the gateway, cut risk, and survive an audit.
Agent Supervisor Role Responsibilities
Why it matters: Agent supervisor role responsibilities decoded: the eight duties, escalation numbers and cost controls that decide whether your agent fleet ships or stalls.
The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
A few months ago, researchers from the MIT Senseable City Lab published a study about pollution in New York City featuring some new methods. For instance: With machine learning, they identified the types of vehicles appearing in 331 traffic cameras in the city, and estimated the emissions coming from each automobile. Given enough cameras, these…
MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow
David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, will serve as the next MIT Innovation Fellow during the 2026-27 academic year. Working with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Siegel will explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery at the Institute and beyond. “From the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing…
Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research
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 Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Five fellowships will be awarded every…
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7 for Coding and Knowledge Work
SpaceXAI on September 21, 2026 released Grok 4.7, its newest model for coding and knowledge work, priced from $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. In the release announcement, SpaceXAI describes Grok 4.7 as its most capable model for coding and knowledge work, saying it works longer on difficult tasks and…
Proposed EU Scheme Would Auto-Generate Sustainability Labels From 2027
The European Commission on September 21, 2026 proposed a common Union rating scheme that will assign data centers with a capacity above 500 kW automatically generated labels disclosing their energy efficiency, water efficiency, clean energy sourcing, and contributions to the electricity grid. The scheme is established by a delegated regulation supplementing the recast Energy Efficiency…
From Reactive to Real-Time: Agentic Retail Execution in Cautious Times
The 2026 State of the US Consumer report from McKinsey offered an important glimpse into current consumer spending habits. Overall, rising living costs remain a dominant concern that had led to weaker consumer confidence. From low-income households to the most affluent, consumers across the board are adopting a much more selective approach. The cautious atmosphere…
Collaboration Must Sit At the Heart of Manufacturing’s Multi-Agentic AI Approach. Here’s How.
Most, if not all, large-scale manufacturers are juggling a plethora of systems in their digital backbones. Often, these will all be operating at once on the shop floor: a predictive maintenance agent watches vibration sensors for safety patterns, a vision-based quality control agent flags product defects and a scheduling agent juggles changeovers as an inventory…