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Artificial IntelligenceEnergy

Helping power-system planners prepare for an unknown future

Macro, a modeling tool developed by the MIT Energy Initiative, enables energy-system planners to explore options for developing infrastructure to support decarbonized, reliable, and low-cost power grids.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRobotics

New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.

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Change ManagementNews Feed

Leaders Assume Employees Are Excited About AI. They’re Wrong.

New research shows that the more senior a leader is, the more they overestimate employee sentiment about how companies are using AI.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Researchers discover a shortcoming that makes LLMs less reliable

Large language models can learn to mistakenly link certain sentence patterns with specific topics — and may then repeat these patterns instead of reasoning.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases

BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.

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Artificial IntelligenceEnergyMachine Learning

How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

AI supports the clean energy transition as it manages power grid operations, helps plan infrastructure investments, guides development of novel materials, and more.

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Research: How Men and Women Sponsor Junior Colleagues

A new study uncovers the different ways they approach costs, benefits, and goals.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

The cost of thinking

MIT neuroscientists find a surprising parallel in the ways humans and new AI models solve complex problems.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

The virtual VideoCAD tool could boost designers’ productivity and help train engineers learning computer-aided design.

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Research: Acknowledging Problems Can Strengthen Your Pitch to Investors

Entrepreneurs who acknowledge setbacks attract capital faster, at lower cost, and with better repayment outcomes.

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