During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
You type a question into ChatGPT or Claude. For a split second, nothing happens. Then the answer starts flowing, word by word. That brief pause and the steady stream that follows are two very different jobs happening on a GPU. Understanding them is the key to building AI apps that feel instant, serve thousands of […]
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Our position on long-running, autonomous agents, and why most business processes need a specialist instead. Picture the person who has to sign off on your first autonomous agent. It might be your head of audit, your CISO, or the risk lead for the business unit that wants it. They ask one question: when this agent...
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Volatile markets require finance teams to reassess their objectives continuously and adjust them when needed. Plans and forecasts need to be updated more often, but every update takes a lot of work and time and ties up resources. Annual plans and rigid structures are a poor fit for these conditions. Rising volatility is one of […]
Your data lead has asked for budget for “AI analytics,” and while you’ve heard the term in every vendor meeting this year, you couldn’t tell the board what it would buy or what it should return. Every platform pitches some version of it, and very few are clear about cost, effort, or results. This guide […]
AI is changing cybersecurity, accelerating vulnerability research and exploit development while raising new questions about reliability, risk, and guardrails. Daniel and Chris talk with Spencer McIntyre, Director of Exploit Development at VulnCheck, about how agents are being used to discover vulnerabilities, why many proof-of-concept exploits (POCs) fail to deliver, and how initial access...
It’s Friday, 8 a.m. Your weekly tech newsletter is drafted, fact-checked and waiting for one click of approval. You didn’t write it. You were asleep. Three AI employees did. A researcher found the week’s best links. A writer turned them into a draft. An editor caught the writer inventing a statistic, fixed it, and then […]
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AI agents need the institutional knowledge experienced employees rely on: why a system works a certain way, which policies apply, and what never made it into the documentation. Capturing that knowledge is hard. Keeping it useful as people and agents add more may be harder. In this episode, Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO of Airbnb, shares how his team is building Project Everest, a “company brain” that...
In the Phocas State of Sales in Distribution 2026 report, 34% of distributors said they don’t measure their new-business win rate and 39% don’t track forecast accuracy or don’t know what it is.
That’s a lot of pipeline running without much visibility across a distribution sales team. Using a distributor-focused CRM for pipeline analytics help sales leaders report on every stage of...
Service organizations hold most of their critical expertise in experienced technicians rather than manuals, and that knowledge is leaving as the workforce turns over. In this episode, Thomas Cottereau, CEO and Founder at SightCall, explores why the real challenge is capturing expertise rather than producing more documentation, and how AI can structure what experts already know into trusted...