The Boston Globe

MIT seeks to unleash faculty and student startups amid AI boom

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is exploring ways to make it easier for faculty and students to pursue their own startups and cash in on soaring demand for artificial intelligence. The ...
The Times-Reporter

MIT-ADT University Becomes Maharashtra’s First to Earn DASCA Accreditation in AI & Data Science Programs

MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, April 1, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — MIT Art, Design and Technology University (MIT-ADT) has been awarded accreditation by the Data Science ...
Commercial Appeal

What to know about data centers and why communities are pushing back

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.
The New York Times

Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power

Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers. Brian Janous, co-founder of Cloverleaf ...
Fast Company

MIT researchers just mapped New York City foot traffic for the first time ever

New York City is a city of walkers. More trips are made on foot than by car (41% versus 28%) and the city’s “80X50” climate action plan envisions that 80% of all trips by 2050 will be made either on ...
ZDNet

AI isn't getting smarter, it's getting more power hungry - and expensive

MIT estimated the computing power for 809 large language models. Total compute affected AI accuracy more than any algorithmic tricks. Computing power will continue to dominate AI development. It's ...
The New York Times

State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...
PBS

Shooter who killed MIT professor and Brown students planned attack for months, DOJ says

BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to ...
Los Angeles Times

How the Brown-MIT shootings unfolded: A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A former Brown University student opened fire in a campus lecture hall on Dec. 13, killing two students and ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

MIT nuclear physicist, shooter, knew each other and were classmates in Portugal before murder

FROM WHERE THIS ALL STARTED AT BROWN UNIVERSITY. NOW WE TURN TO OUR SHARMAN SACCHETTI LIVE ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH IN BROOKLINE, NEAR THE MIT PROFESSOR’S HOME. SHARMAN. AND NEIGHBORS ARE STILL STRUGGLING ...
CNBC

Brown and MIT prof shooter suspect Neves Valente is found dead, authorities say

The man suspected of the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others Saturday, and killing an MIT professor days later, was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire. The ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...