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Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access. Today, Apple rolled out the 27.2 updates for its operating systems, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and so on. Let's start with iOS 27.2. This update is heavily focused on Siri AI. It adds a memory feature…

At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network

A cross-section of the MIT community convened discussions on topics ranging from data centers and super pollutants to agriculture and education. Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants…

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees

US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk. Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—but executives stood by the…

Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo

Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment. Highway thieves are using sophisticated digital tactics that investigators worry make it easy to rob trucks carrying millions in expensive data center equipment. NBC News spoke to “several industry leaders, consultants, and investigators advising law enforcement” offices probing the…

Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.

Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot. Elon Musk’s “flying” Roadster jumped and flipped through the air this month in a stunt that went viral around the world. But his bigger bet is on changing the way Tesla makes money—and the wider car industry is scrambling…

Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding

OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them. OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

GPT-6.1 Sol helps CodeRabbit strengthen security across complex codebases

CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes. CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.

ChatGPT’s expanding world of work

Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time. Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.

How Fanatics and OpenAI streamline the fan experience

Fanatics uses OpenAI to help fans complete their game-day outfits with Shop the Look. Testing across roughly 30,000 MLB products showed 10% higher engagement. Fanatics uses OpenAI to help fans complete their game-day outfits with Shop the Look. Testing across roughly 30,000 MLB products showed 10% higher engagement.

How Ultrafast cut incident investigation from hours to minutes at OpenAI

See how OpenAI engineers use Codex Ultrafast to investigate incidents in minutes. Explore faster security analysis, code refactoring, and daily workflows. See how OpenAI engineers use Codex Ultrafast to investigate incidents in minutes. Explore faster security analysis, code refactoring, and daily workflows.

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone

At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI

In Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cultural needs. Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence…

Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting. Using Google's products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world's largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won't use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive,…

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.” At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and…

Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production. US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could continue…

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT. Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

Securing our frontier model training environment

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming. OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate. Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human,…

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

Anima helps clinics cut call waits by 75% with GPT-6 and GPT-Live

Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients. Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem. OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices

“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 human contact. As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as interactive companions to humans…

Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API

Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application. Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types

A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types. A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models