When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility. New work from a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…
Ask any teacher what actually eats their time, and it’s rarely the hours in front of students. It’s everything that happens before and after: building a quiz from scratch on a Sunday night, formatting flashcards for that same unit the next day, then doing it all again for the next lesson. Edcafe AI claims it…
Perplexity’s year-long bet on free access in India is starting to show its return. The AI search company’s in-app revenue in the country rose roughly 60% in the months after its giveaway with telecom operator Airtel closed to new users, according to estimates from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, even as its download numbers collapsed….
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and…
When Google Quantum AI reported in July that it had taught a quantum computer to “learn from its errors,” the obvious story was better error correction. Quantum computers are extremely sensitive machines. Small changes in their environment can push them out of tune and introduce errors, which can force researchers to stop a calculation and…
A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing that the language an AI ‘thinks’ in can intimately influence its moral judgment – apparently due to innate cultural embeddings. New research from France suggests that Japan’s collective memory…
Future-proofing online exams amid rising demand and tightening privacy laws. The global online exam software market, valued at $9.4b in 2025, is expected to reach $28.7b by 2034, as training providers, professional bodies and educational institutions increasingly shift assessments online. The popularity of online exams is easy to understand, as educational institutions are managing funding…
The World Cup recently wrapped, and for fans, the excitement of a month’s worth of matches is still fresh. For cybercriminals, it meant something else: an open window of opportunity, and one worth looking back on now that the games are behind us. The 2026 tournament was the largest World Cup to date, with 48…
OpenAI on August 18, 2026 launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated version of its chatbot that automatically applies to users aged 13 to 17 (and to anyone its age-prediction system estimates is under 18), combining default safety protections with a set of learning tools built around Study Mode. The experience, described in OpenAI’s announcement, differs…
Progress in science, like all major human achievements, accelerated through collaboration. In 1665, Philosophical Transactions was founded in London, becoming the world’s first scientific journal. It established a principle that changed everything: claims should be evaluated by a community, not merely asserted by an individual. Scientific reasoning paired with open collaboration allowed knowledge to compound…