The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community. If Willy Wonka had microchips, his factory would have been the MIT Media Lab.

The director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned on Saturday after it was revealed that he had been secretly accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein. “After giving ...

Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, resigned from his position on Saturday following new allegations that the lab tried to hide the extent of its financial ties to convicted sex offender ...

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According to Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, dealing with ethically dubious funders is an unavoidable part of fundraising. Jeffrey Epstein “is an extreme case,” Negroponte told the ...

As the MIT Media Lab continues a reckoning over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, tech and innovation leaders at other campuses say the scandal will likely have ripple effects across higher education. The ...

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

A Pritzker Prize winner, he designed notable projects in his native Japan and in the U.S., including 4 World Trade Center and the M.I.T. Media Lab’s new home. By Fred A. Bernstein The artist Ekene ...

For the first time in its 35-year history, the MIT Media Lab will be led by a woman. Dava Newman comes to the role with a stellar resumé. An aerospace engineer and MIT professor since 1998, she served ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to MIT graduate student Arwa Mboya, who had been demanding MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito resign after it was revealed he had financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey ...

Joichi Ito has resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab after a New Yorker article detailed the lengths to which the Lab concealed funds received from Jeffrey Epstein. The MIT Media Lab has been ...