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MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, will serve as the next MIT Innovation Fellow during the 2026-27 academic year. Working with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Siegel will explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery at the Institute and beyond.

“From the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to the MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence, David has been a superb thought partner for me and other Institute leaders on a range of very significant initiatives, so we're delighted to have him join us now as an MIT Innovation Fellow,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. “Our community has long benefited from David's exceptional technical insight, entrepreneurial experience, instinct for connecting people, and infectious love for MIT. We look forward to working with him now as he helps us identify new opportunities at the intersection of AI and scientific discovery.”

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What was the first mainstream computer to use USB as the only port for connecting peripherals?

Compaq iPaq Desktop Apple Power Mac G4 Cube Apple iMac G3 Sony VAIO 505 Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. A brief explanation why The iMac G3 and the Death of Legacy Ports When the iMac went on sale in mid-1998, most people noticed

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Anthropic Launches Faster, Safer, and Cheaper Claude Opus 5.5

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, an AI model the company claims performs similarly to Claude Fable 5.1 but at a lower cost. The release purportedly offers Mythos-like cybersecurity and biology capabilities. Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per

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Does your AI agent really understand your enterprise context? You need more than a knowledge graph, says Google Cloud's Andi Gutmans

Context is at the center of the conversation about enterprise AI these days. It's become increasingly clear that it plays a huge role in reducing token spend and increasing the accuracy of responses from Large Language Models (LLMs). Give the model sufficient context, and it is able to

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Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison

Under the bill, AI leaders who continue developing artificial superintelligence would face up to 20 years in prison. by Emma Roth Sep 23, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto,

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What was the first mainstream computer to use USB as the only port for connecting peripherals?

Anthropic Launches Faster, Safer, and Cheaper Claude Opus 5.5

Does your AI agent really understand your enterprise context? You need more than a knowledge graph, says Google Cloud's Andi Gutmans

Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison