04 Jun 2026
As Physical AI Advances, Bigger Models Are No Longer Enough
For years, the artificial intelligence conversation has largely centered on one question: how to build bigger and more capable models. But as AI increasingly moves beyond screens and into robots, autonomous systems, and real-world machines, a different question is emerging. Can model scale alone solve the challenges of reliability, safety, and decision-making in physical environments, or does…
04 Jun 2026
Humanoid robots won’t be the future: purpose-built robots will
Elon Musk said that humanoid robots will push Tesla’s market value to $25 trillion. He also believes that they will reshape labor. No longer will humans need to do dangerous, repetitive, or mundane things. It’s a compelling vision. Yet the reality is likely far more nuanced.
04 Jun 2026
Zapping Mosquitos With Lasers Is a Real Thing, Thanks to AI
As summer arrives, and mosquitoes celebrate another season of bloody conquest, you might be thinking, "Why do we even have all this AI tech if it can't do a single thing about these airborne pests?" There are plenty of reasons to complain about artificial intelligence, but its failure to fight mosquitoes is no longer one of them.
02 Jun 2026
Laser system tracks, kills mosquitoes using custom vision model
A computer vision and robotics enthusiast has developed an AI-powered laser system capable of detecting, tracking, and eliminating mosquitoes using custom-trained deep learning models and precision targeting hardware.
02 Jun 2026
Van der Waals strain hardening and large uniform tensile elongation in GaSe
Data availability The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon request. Source data are provided with this paper.
01 Jun 2026
GPU is not the end game in AI, but biological neurons
This week, Cortical Labs achieved a milestone that sounds like absolute mad-man science fiction, although it is grounded in very real hardware, as they successfully trained a biological computer, an experimental system in which living neurons serve as processors, running on 200,000 lab-grown human neurons to play Doom.
28 May 2026
Harvard Confers Five Honorary Degrees at 2026 Commencement
During the 375th Commencement this morning, Harvard will confer honorary degrees on five distinguished recipients, including journalist Peggy Noonan, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, and comedian Conan O’Brien. Three men and two women will be honored: Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI” and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics; Sir Noel Malcolm, a historian and political journalist expert in the…
28 May 2026
Five recognized with honorary degrees
A collection of features and graduate profiles covering Harvard’s 375th Commencement. The University will confer five honorary degrees during Thursday’s Commencement ceremony.
26 May 2026
Sam Altman Says AI ‘Jobs Apocalypse’ He Predicted Probably Won’t Happen. What Changed?
Throughout his rise to becoming one of the most influential CEOs in artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s Sam Altman made repeated bold assertions about the impact that the new technology would have on jobs.
