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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of people using ChatGPT.
Brain

Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

By Noor Al-Sibai

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" nuclear fusion power plant
Energy

Company Announces Construction of “Grid-Scale” Fusion Power Plant

By Victor Tangermann

During an MIT talk, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton seemed to endorse the concept of superintelligent AI replacing humanity.
Artificial Intelligence

In Video, Godfather of AI Said He Was in Favor of AI Replacing Humankind

By Noor Al-Sibai

An MIT biotechnology student has gotten "Doom" to run on a cell array full of gut bacteria, proving that it really does run on everything.
Prosthetics and Devices

Mad Scientist Gets Doom Running on E. Coli Cells

By Noor Al-Sibai

MIT students have dreamed up a lunar colony-building robot that's part spider and part worm — and looks 100% creepy as heck.
Robotics

MIT Students Built a Terrifying Mix-and-Match Spider Robot to Build Lunar Colonies

By Noor Al-Sibai

The MIT engineers behind the robot mini cheetah released a video showcasing its new running and terrain-traversing skills on Thursday.
Robotics

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Looks Hilariously Awkward Teaching Itself to Run

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of chemical engineers at MIT have created a new material that they claim to be stronger than steel — but still as light as plastic.
Science & Energy

MIT Creates Material Stronger Than Steel But as Light as Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.
Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An MIT geophsicist said that humans are on the brink of causing a sixth mass extinction event due to the amount of carbon pumped into the air and oceans.
Science & Energy

MIT Scientist Says We’re on the Brink of a Mass Extinction Event

By Tony Ho Tran

MIT engineers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the "mini cheetah," that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain.
Robotics

Oh Great, MIT Has Taught Its Robotic Cheetah to Leap

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of engineers at MIT have created a concept for a hybrid-electric plane that could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent.
Advanced Transport

MIT Unveils Design for Hybrid-Electric Airliner

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI algorithm called RoboGrammer can design robot bodies that are optimized for specific tasks or crossing specific terrain.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT have created an AI that is capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Invents AI to Decipher Ancient Languages

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT claim their "SPARC" compact fusion reactor should work — or at least in theory, as they argue in a series of papers.
Energy

MIT Researchers Say Their Fusion Reactor Is “Very Likely to Work”

By Victor Tangermann

In a CNN opinion piece, Sarah Seager, member of the team that announced it had found evidence for life on Venus, argues that the discovery is "crazy."
Science & Energy

Scientist Behind Venus Life Claim Describes It as “Crazy”

By Victor Tangermann

MIT permanently deleted a massive dataset used for training AI after learning that it was full of racist and sexist slurs.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

By Dan Robitzski