For most of modern science, the first stages of a research idea were largely invisible. A researcher noticed an anomaly, connected two concepts, questioned an established assumption, or identified a gap in the literature. That idea was privately refined before being tested through conversations with supervisors, colleagues, reviewers, and funding bodies. Generative AI is inserting…
Google has added a control layer to the managed agents in its Gemini API, letting developers run their own code before and after every tool call an agent makes inside its cloud sandbox, and cancel the call outright. The same update makes Gemini 3.6 Flash the default model behind the agent, caps how many tokens…
Ono Pharmaceutical is putting AI agents in front of the scientists who run its earliest-stage research. Under a collaboration announced on July 28, 2026, the Osaka drugmaker will deploy Biomni Lab, the agentic research platform built by South San Francisco applied-AI lab Phylo, across its drug discovery organization. What the platform is meant to absorb,…
The agency that investigates most computer intrusions in the United States now treats autonomous vulnerability discovery as a coming enforcement problem. Todd Hemmen, deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division’s Cyber Capabilities Branch, told the Digital Government Institute’s 930gov conference in Washington on July 28, 2026 that the software flaws surfaced by Anthropic’s Mythos…
Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8 and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. All of Mate’s existing investors returned for the financing, bringing the cybersecurity company’s…
Hugging Face has published a technical timeline of the July 2026 intrusion that OpenAI’s evaluation models ran against its production infrastructure, and it puts a third company in the attack path. Before the agent reached Hugging Face, it took over a public code-evaluation sandbox running on another provider’s platform and operated the entire campaign from…
More than 1,100 employees of the world’s leading AI labs have signed a public statement asking Washington to help build the tools needed to deliberately slow frontier AI development, and within hours OpenAI and Anthropic each endorsed it as companies. The request lands four days before the Trump administration’s own deadline for producing a frontier-model…
For nuclear to be considered as a viable clean energy source, it has to be competitively priced and economical to produce. Lauren Fortier, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), is helping the cause by developing remote operation protocols for autonomous control of nuclear plants. After an undergraduate degree…
MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those selected for funding under Genesis Phase I, DOE announced Wednesday. The Genesis Mission, a national initiative, intends to build “the world’s most powerful integrated science discovery platform” by incentivizing cross-sector collaborations that leverage AI, supercomputing, quantum…
Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and the Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making at Arizona State University, died on June 3 at his home in Belmont,…