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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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Eligible iPhone owners in the United States can begin submitting claims on September 21, 2026, in the $250 million settlement of Landsheft v. Apple Inc., a class action over Siri Apple Intelligence features, according to the case’s official settlement website. The settlement covers U.S. residents who were the original purchasers of an iPhone 15 Pro,…

Google opened pre-orders for Googlebook on September 21, 2026, bringing its new laptop line to market with five flagship models built by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo at a starting price of $899. The announcement came in a post by John Solomon, Google’s vice president and general manager for Laptops, Tablets & Android Enterprise….

Simbe Robotics announced on September 21, 2026 that it has surpassed 3,000 autonomous units under contract, which the company described as the largest commercially committed fleet of shelf intelligence technology identified in company research. The announcement comes in the decade since Simbe introduced Tally, which the company calls the world’s first inventory robot, and the…

BigID on September 21, 2026 announced the launch of AgentIQ, an agentic automation interface that lets customers operate their data security and compliance programs from a prompt or an AI agent, either inside BigID or directly from Claude, Copilot, GPT, or Gemini. What AgentIQ Does The release describes AgentIQ as a fully agentic automation interface…