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In Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cultural…
Read at source: At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AIDuring the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and…
Read at source: Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MITIt was another interesting week for AI-related startup funding, with a number of large rounds and quirky companies. The largest financings went to Tenstorrent,…
Read at source: The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large FinancingsAI agents create new trade secret risks by allowing employees to access expertise or inadvertently expose proprietary information through personal devices. In this guest…
Read at source: Protecting Trade Secrets In The Age Of AIFrom teaching robots to do everyday household chores to using lasers to track satellites in space, this month's crop of interesting startup deals spans…
Read at source: 5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Robot Training, Space Lasers And Greener CementAssistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
Read at source: Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to…
Read at source: This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devicesSlingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures…
Read at source: Exclusive: Slingshot Raises $27M In Seed Funding To Build An Insurer For Those Small Policies Sold At CheckoutIn this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2…
Read at source: The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recent months, including one-time…
Read at source: Acquirers Are Snapping Up Boom-Era Startups That Haven’t Raised Funding In YearsAs AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions…
Read at source: Your Next Customer Might Be An Agent. Here’s How To Build Your Brand For Both Humans And AI.Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions. Guest author Ron Honig, co-CEO and managing…
Read at source: When A Startup Sells, Its Employees’ Equity Plans Can Change OvernightCrunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI…
Read at source: ‘Weird And Maybe Uninvestable’: How Reach Capital Spots Its Venture WinnersFounders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently,…
Read at source: How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture CapitalAll told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in Q2 2026 and 21.4%…
Read at source: Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew ScarcerA model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat…
Read at source: Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliableA continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the…
Read at source: LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The RegionEnterprise AI companies relying on armies of forward deployed engineers are disguising labor-intensive services as scalable software, inflating recurring revenue and valuations while falling…
Read at source: The FDE Bubble: Silicon Valley’s Most Expensive Game Of PretendNew research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.
Read at source: Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials worldFalling token prices have led many enterprises to assume AI costs will fall with them. Agents are breaking that assumption.
Read at source: Gartner says agent costs will rise fivefold by 2028 even as tokens get cheaper. Here is how to keep them in checkEnterprise multi-agent workflows typically use rigid, pre-scripted pipelines or simple voting mechanisms to aggregate the responses of multiple agents. These approaches break down when…
Read at source: A new framework teaches AI models to audit and repair each other’s reasoning, improving accuracyStartup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the…
Read at source: The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup BatchGPUs running large language model inference can spend up to 60% of their compute recalculating context they already processed, says Alan McSeveney, field CTO…
Read at source: Up to 60% of GPU compute goes to recomputing context. Flash storage can put that capacity back to workThe 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
Read at source: Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovationReflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S.…
Read at source: Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokensVentureBeat’s September 2026 Agentic Security and Identity survey asked 102 enterprises how they secure and revoke AI agent access. Forty described a program that…
Read at source: 17 of 40 teams that say they enforce AI agent permissions still share the credentials behind themOverall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian startups in Q3, per Crunchbase data. Of that, a majority went…
Read at source: Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AIMIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.
Read at source: State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report finds corporate commitment at record high, but governance lags behindA new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
Read at source: AI model decodes the language cells use to communicateChinese labs have become a go-to source for AI models businesses can download, customize and run on their own infrastructure. Alibaba’s Qwen, DeepSeek and…
Read at source: Meta unveils Muse Spark Open, the new top U.S. open weights model — and it runs on two paired Mac desktopsOver 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs…
Read at source: The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs TrackerArcade.dev, a startup that helps AI agents work inside business software while controlling what they are allowed to do, is introducing Tool Recommendation, a…
Read at source: New Tool Recommendation system cuts your firm's input token costs by 37%, according to Arcade.devAs AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions,…
Read at source: How To Build Your Team With Autonomous Humans, Not Just Autonomous SystemsFor the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about…
Read at source: Cybersecurity Investors Put $6.8B To Work In The Third Quarter, Mostly In Larger RoundsNew York-based Chariot Claims has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy…
Read at source: Exclusive: Chariot Raises $10M To Help Consumers Fight Back Against Hidden Fees And Hard-To-Cancel SubscriptionsIn a new book, Professor Eric So explores how the technology affects our thinking skills.
Read at source: Q&A: The “collision” between AI, your brain, and societyA new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.
Read at source: Researchers improve weather forecasts looking two to six weeks outIn this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building…
Read at source: Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup MarkloComplex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on…
Read at source: How I Learned That Some Startup Problems Are Too Big For A Minimum Viable ProductSemiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new Unicorn Board counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries including biotech,…
Read at source: 38 Companies Join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In Blockbuster September, Led By Semiconductor, Fintech And Space Tech CompaniesMachine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.
Read at source: How artificial neural networks build their own learning machineryRoadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.
Read at source: MIT Lincoln Laboratory hosts National Security Commission on Emerging BiotechnologyThe next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode…
Read at source: Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be BuiltProfessor Deb Roy contends there should be someone who is “answerable” for every piece of text in public life, no matter its origins.
Read at source: Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversationsMIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin shares important considerations for departments and institutions.
Read at source: 3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.
Read at source: Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centersStudents in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be…
Read at source: Discovering the value of humanistic inquiryAn ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sponsors.
Read at source: Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardwareAs director, Bourg has focused on digital access, open and equitable scholarly publishing, and expanded support for data-intensive research.
Read at source: Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT LibrariesThe effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI.
Read at source: MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the countryAssociate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
Read at source: Computational tools for society’s most complex challengesWriting as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests…
Read at source: Documenting the tech worker movementMartin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about…
Read at source: 3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs