Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for:
America’s scientific and technological leadership
Merit-based admissions and affordable education
Advances that increase US health, security, and prosperity
Our community is standing up for MIT and its mission to serve the nation and the world. And we need you to join us at this critical moment.
standupfor.mit.edu
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator w...
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intell...
The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered. Once quantum computing becomes practical (estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years), the foundational security it provides will crumble. New research has revealed a novel method that uses classical computing to...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the co...