New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

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With AI software increasingly hogging the enterprise spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before. In the first half of 2025, AI startups raised over $44 billion, more than all of ...

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a clever way to make powerful AI systems use far less memory, that too, without losing accuracy. The new method is called ...

Using M-blocks, MIT researchers have created a robotic technology that features cubes with no external moving parts, yet are fully capable of propelling themselves forward, jumping atop one another, ...