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There was a time when the field of information technology was largely seen as a male-dominated space. Today, that perception is steadily changing. In Nepal, women are not only entering highly technical fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, but are also taking on leadership roles and actively participating to shape the future of innovation. At Fusemachines, the journeys of Pralisha Kansakar, ML Engineer, and Bishakha Pande, AI Services Manager, reflect that change. Although they come from different academic and professional backgrounds, both have built successful careers in AI through curiosity, persistence, and a commitment to continuous learning.…

It’s a concept that both scares and delights: the possibility that aging might not be an inevitable human fate, as was once assumed. It seemed like the kind of thing that only exists in science fiction along with flying cars and teleportation for the foreseeable future.Now though, we have a new and rapidly growing tool for doing just that: artificial intelligence.Researchers and other experts are currently suggesting that artificial intelligence is capable of solving one of the hardest questions in biology, how to decelerate, halt and reverse the process of ageing itself. This is not necessarily about making us live…

The alert wasn’t blared out with sirens; however it should probably have been. It seems that in some of the more closed-off policy rooms and on the hurried internal bulletins of European banking and financial oversight bodies, authorities are beginning to suspect something frightening. The upcoming financial apocalypse may not be created by any of our fellow homo sapiens.First of all, it’s an AI model that can test a system, figure out its vulnerabilities, and in certain conditions, exploit them. Per multiple anonymous industry sources, the ECB has begun reaching out to banks to ask them how they’re feeling about…

MIT Associate Professor Jacob Andreas of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EECS] and MIT Associate Professor Brett McGuire of the Department of Chemistry have been selected as the winners of the 2026 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. Established in 1982 as a permanent tribute to Institute Professor Emeritus Harold E. Edgerton’s great and enduring support for younger faculty members, this award is given annually in recognition of exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service.“The Department of Chemistry is extremely delighted to see Brett recognized for science that has changed how we think about carbon in space,” says Class of…

Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful models into the hands of scientists.The problem is that most scientists aren’t machine-learning experts. Now the company OpenProtein.AI is helping scientists stay on the cutting edge of AI with a no-code platform that gives them access to powerful foundation models and a suite of tools for designing proteins, predicting protein structure and function, and training models.The company, founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT associate professor Tim…

Enterprises are shipping AI faster than ever but not always with the right guardrails in place. As models move from prototypes to production, the difference between organizations that scale safely and those that stumble often comes down to one thing: a clear, modern AI governance stack that everyone actually follows. Instead of thinking about governance as a binder of policies, leading teams now see it as a layered stack of people, processes, and tools embedded throughout the AI lifecycle. In this insight piece, we’ll break down seven key components every enterprise AI governance program needs to be credible, scalable, and…

The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver to fix?Such underwater human-robot teaming is the focus of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory project funded through an internally administered R&D portfolio on autonomous systems and carried out by the Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group. The project seeks to leverage the respective strengths of humans and…

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee Report. The report’s findings emphasized MIT’s role and responsibility in the new nuclear age, which called for doubling down on genuine “integration” of scientific and technical topics with humanistic scholarship and teaching. Only that way, the committee wrote, could MIT tackle “the most difficult and complicated problems confronting our generation.”As SHASS marks its 75th anniversary, Dean Agustín Rayo answers questions about why the need for developing…

This is not exactly a good time for regulators. The prevailing mood is: Wait, did things just get worse faster than we expected?Right now, regulators in the UK are frantically looking to control what appears to be a frightening jump in the use of AI. A model created by Anthropic was apparently able to discover a large number of software vulnerabilities and this is making people worried.This is not science fiction. It’s real.After being assessed internally, as the model is still in early trials, regulators started wondering if this new AI system could have negative effects for the UK. The…

Something has shifted in the air around AI. It is not a dramatic turn of events, the kind that usually heralds a new dawn, but more akin to a hushed room, where everyone suddenly looks around.This has happened over the last couple of days, as a few high-profile figures have begun to raise a question previously deemed as fantasy. Is AI safe, they are asking, in the event it does not do what they expected?That is the general theme in this report on why some are worried AI may eventually “go rogue.” As the pieces of AI are assembled and…