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Lumen: Building the trusted network for AI
Jeff Sieracki, senior director of product management at Louisiana-based Lumen, is quick to point out that the networking requirements of the modern enterprise are changing rapidly. It is an evolution being driven by several transformative computing trends, chief among them the rapid proliferation of AI workloads. “More organizations are coming to the harsh realization that…
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Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To
Elon Musk’s DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.
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Tesla’s revenue and profits tank amid political chaos
Tesla released its first quarter financial earnings today, offering another peak into the crisis currently enveloping Elon Musk’s company. Tesla said it earned $409 million in net income on $19.3 billion in revenue. That’s below Wall Street expectations of $21.1 billion and represents a 9.4 percent decrease year over year compared to $21.3 billion in…
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OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
If Google is forced to sell off Chrome, ChatGPT’s head of product told a judge today that OpenAI would be interested in buying the browser, Reuters reports. Google breaking off Chrome is a proposed remedy by the US Department of Justice in US v. Google, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that the…
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Building better cities
Clara Brenner, MBA ’12, arrived in Cambridge on the lookout for a business partner. She wanted to start her own company—and never have to deal with a boss again. She would go it alone if she had to, but she hoped to find someone whose skills would complement her own. It’s a common MBA tale.…
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Gooey greatness
A new type of glue developed by researchers from MIT and Germany combines sticky polymers inspired by the mussel with the germ-fighting properties of another natural material: mucus. To stick to a rock or a ship, mussels secrete a fluid full of proteins connected by chemical cross-links. As it happens, similar cross-linking features are found…
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Inside-out learning
When the prison doors first closed behind him more than 50 years ago, Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, felt decidedly unsettled. In his first job out of college, as a researcher for a consulting company working on a project for the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, he had been tasked with interviewing incarcerated participants in…
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Unleashing the potential of qubits, one molecule at a time
It all began with a simple origami model. As an undergrad at Harvard, Danna Freedman went to a professor’s office hours for her general chemistry class and came across an elegant paper model that depicted the fullerene molecule. The intricately folded representation of chemical bonds and atomic arrangements sparked her interest, igniting a profound curiosity…
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The Institute’s greatest ambassadors
After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division 1 football team, coming to MIT was a bit of a culture shock—in the best possible way. I’ve heard from MIT alumni all about late-night psetting, when to catch MITHenge, and the best way to celebrate Pi Day (with pie, of course).…
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How the brain, with sleep, maps space
Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal has been. More useful, though, is remembering where places are relative to each other, and it hasn’t been clear how those mental maps are formed. A study by MIT neuroscientist Matthew Wilson and colleagues sheds…