AI Research Dispatch

AI research dispatch tracking model releases, lab updates, benchmarks, safety work, and academic papers with links to primary or source materials and context.

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Working to automate nuclear plant operations

In pursuit of autonomous nuclear plant operations It turns out the research for the master’s was just the tip of the iceberg. There was still work left to be done. For the future viability of nuclear …

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Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research. With recent cuts to National …

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Solving the solvent problem

Lithium-ion batteries are the leading choice in today’s electric vehicle and battery energy storage system industries, but they contain a number of critical minerals — including lithium, cobalt, …

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Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Breadcrumb Innovation & AI Models & research Gemini Models Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash Jun 24, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn …

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Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering …

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Exploring the societal impacts of AI

At the recent AI and Society Forum at MIT , experts from across the Institute discussed the potential benefits and dangers of technological innovation on labor, the nature of work, civil discourse, …

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David Autor named head of the Department of Economics

David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1. “David is a world-class labor …

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Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Scaling AI Safety Research for a Multi-Agent World For the past decade, we’ve focused on making individual AI models more capable, helpful and safe. Today, Google DeepMind — together with Schmidt …

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MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and …

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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Why diffusion for text? While the AI research community has explored diffusion-based text generation for years, applying it to large models has remained a challenge. DiffusionGemma changes this by …