Building connections across the research infrastructure | MIT News
Running a modern research laboratory requires more than maintaining sophisticated instruments. Researchers need to complete training, obtain access, schedule and operate equipment, navigate billing, and more. For large, shared facilities, coordinating these activities across hundreds of instruments and thousands of users can be
Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
Factory has released Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of
OpenAI’s funding round shrinks, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. OpenAI has reportedly cut its latest funding round by $10 billion as investors get nervous about AI spending. Four of the biggest AI companies say they will honour one shared opt-out for
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows | MIT News
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation. Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt
Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model to date. Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier model from Google built for long-horizon agentic coding and cybersecurity defense. It ranks #1 on the updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score
AI breaks a computing rule, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Two rival labs say their AI knocked down the same pillar of computer science, the FTC wants Anthropic’s bosses under oath, and a popular Chinese open model tried to phone home to
At New York Climate Week 2026, MIT connects with a global network | MIT News
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 come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and venture capital. And this
Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers
In this article, we will discuss newly trending open sourced Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime (srt), the OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code’s sandboxed bash tool. The Anthropic sandbox-runtime limits which files a process can touch and which hosts it can reach. It does this without spinning
Claude Formal Verification: 123 Libraries Proven Crash-Free
Anthropic says Claude has mathematically proven that fuzz-tested code in 123 open-source libraries can’t crash on any input under 64MB, and it found bugs along the way that years of testing had missed. The work, published by Anthropic on October 22 with formal
This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices | MIT News
Jiaji Li and lead author Xiang Chang, a TJU PhD student and visiting researcher at CSAIL, used X-Hinges to create many clever devices. For example, they made a glove that can teach a robot how to grasp blocks. It adjusts to the size
