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This Solid-State Battery Fix Could Matter More For Motorcycles Than Cars

MIT researchers found a way to reduce dendrite growth in solid-state batteries, potentially unlocking lighter electric motorcycles and powersports vehicles.

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Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today's Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence

Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one…

The Times of India

Meet Apurva Shrivastava: How this MIT graduate turned missed calls into billion-dollar AI business worth over Rs 8,300 crore

Apurva Shrivastava's childhood experiences inspired him to co-found the AI startup Avoca, which answers customer calls for home service businesses. Its AI voice agents can book appointments, manage schedules and follow up on pending quotations. The startup is now valued at $1 billion, with its success rooted in solving a…

The Economic Times

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He learned one lesson at his family's Michigan business. Now it's a $1 billion AI startup

Apurva Shrivastava, an Indian-origin entrepreneur who studied in MIT, founded Avoca after observing missed customer calls. This AI startup now helps home service businesses avoid lost sales and revenue. Apurva Shrivastava grew up in Michigan and helped his parents in their business, from where he originated the idea of Avoca.…

The Economic Times

'We are driving in the fog': Hundreds of economists admit they're flying blind on AI

Will AI take your job, or is it a bunch of hype? We must act now to understand what's out there, over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates say.

Fortune

DeepSeek AI review

DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a complicated choice for businesses.

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What Pets and Animals Actually Dream About: What Brain Science and REM Sleep Research Reveals

The Rat That Ran the Maze TwiceIn 2001, neuroscientists Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie at MIT wired electrodes into the hippocampi of rats and let them run a maze during the day. At night, while the rats slept, Wilson and Louie watched the same neurons fire, in the same sequence,…

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Meet 'the next Albert Einstein' Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her research, NASA and Jeff Bezos wanted to hire her, she turned down a $1.1 million offer

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew a single-engine aircraft at a young age when she was just 12. Her research on the spin memory effect was cited by Stephen Hawking. Pasterski declined lucrative offers from NASA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to pursue fundamental physics questions. She now leads research…

The Economic Times

This Flaw Keeps Sabotaging Solid-State Batteries. Scientists Found A Solution

Tiny metal spikes can short-circuit a solid-state battery. Researchers at MIT found a way to avoid them.

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Trump UFO Advisory Team Pushes Defence Firms to Disclose Secret Alien Tech

Trump's UFO advisory team is openly pressuring US defence giants like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to reveal any secret alien tech and join the president's latest UAP disclosure push.

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Elephant’s memory: MIT built a robot that could remember exactly where you left your household items

MIT's new DAAAM robot memory system marks a major advance in artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional robots, it remembers objects with their location and time. Powered by AI and spatial memory, it answers natural questions in seconds. The breakthrough could improve robots in homes, factories, hospitals, and warehouses, bringing machines closer…

The Economic Times

'It's not going away': The Stanford economist who called the AI entry-level jobs crisis early has the receipts

Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson is partnering with ADP's Nela Richardson on a live dashboard tracking what they found last summer: AI is eating entry-level work.

Fortune

He didn't just learn AI; he turned it into a Rs 1 crore-a-month business by teaching others

A 13-year-old Ayush Singh transformed pandemic curiosity into a thriving AI business, reportedly earning Rs 1 crore monthly. He bypassed traditional education, mastering AI through self-learning and practical projects. His shift to teaching AI skills via premium cohorts and building AI automation solutions for businesses like SecondBrain Labs has garnered…

The Economic Times

Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk

AI is eating entry-level jobs fast. And a new survey of 600 recruiters shows an MBA may no longer be the escape hatch it once was.

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Everyone agrees that you hate AI, but only Mark Cuban sees why Silicon Valley is powerless to fix it

"The big LLMs have lost the PR battle," Cuban said. "Why? Because they all suck at putting people first."

Fortune

One U.S. college is fixing tuition at just 10% of parental income: 'We’re not hiding the cost of college behind secret formulas'

At Whitman College, a private college in Walla Walla, Washington, what your parents earn each year will set the cost of your degree.

The Economic Times

A16z crypto leads $33 million bet on compute marketplace Ornn

Compute marketplace Ornn has secured $33 million in a funding round led by a16z crypto, with participation from Galaxy Ventures and others. Founded by MIT graduates, Ornn aims to bring transparency to the computing power market, which is crucial for AI. The platform will allow data centers and cloud providers…

The Economic Times

A wristband into a real-time hand reader, and the ultrasound system can make a robot play the piano, shoot mini basketballs, and mimic your fingers with surprising precision

Scientists have developed a revolutionary ultrasound wristband that tracks hand movements with remarkable accuracy. This wearable device, powered by AI, can decipher intricate finger and palm configurations in real-time, even translating them to control robotic hands. The technology promises to enhance virtual reality interactions and train robots for complex tasks,…

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Teen Entrepreneur Earns ₹1 Crore a Month from AI Business, Inspires Social Media

A remarkable story of a 19-year-old entrepreneur reportedly earning around ₹1 crore per month from an artificial intelligence (AI) business has captured widespread attention online, sparking admiration, disbelief, and self-reflection among social media users.

The Economic Times

No IIT, No MIT: After facing financial crisis during COVID-19, a 19-year-old is now earning Rs 1 crore by selling courses

A 19-year-old self-taught AI prodigy, Ayush Singh, is now reportedly earning Rs 1 crore monthly through his venture on the Topmate platform. Overcoming a family financial crisis during COVID-19, Singh learned machine learning independently, gaining recognition from MIT at 14. His success highlights the power of packaging and selling skills,…

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How to automate workflows using open-source AI agents

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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on the 'brainless' AI discourse, the myth of capitalism and the Gen Z revolution risk

The MIT economist and Nobel Prize winner doesn't mince words: most of what you're reading about AI is wrong, and the stakes for getting it right are existential.

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I watched enterprises buy AI that solved the wrong problem. So I left Dell and built a startup to fix it

The healthcare industry's broken prior authorization process isn't just a patient problem — it's a warning sign for every regulated industry deploying AI without the infrastructure to govern it.

The Guardian - US

Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says

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'Holy crap, this is not how you cool facilities' — Nuclear engineer wants to use special bubbles to save AI data centers from a massive energy crisis

MIT researchers adapted nuclear reactor cooling principles to reduce energy consumption and water use in rapidly expanding AI data centers.

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