The deployment of autonomous AI agents—systems capable of using tools and executing code—presents a unique security challenge. While standard LLM applications are restricted to text-based interactions, autonomous agents require access to shell environments, file systems, and network endpoints to perform tasks. This increased capability introduces significant risks, as a model’s ‘black box’ nature can…

Large language models (LLMs) are transitioning from conversational to autonomous agents capable of executing complex professional workflows. However, their deployment in enterprise environments remains limited by the lack of benchmarks that capture the specific challenges of professional settings: long-horizon planning, persistent state changes, and strict access protocols. To address this, researchers from ServiceNow Research,…

The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition…

The transition from a raw dataset to a fine-tuned Large Language Model (LLM) traditionally involves significant infrastructure overhead, including CUDA environment management and high VRAM requirements. Unsloth AI, known for its high-performance training library, has released Unsloth Studio to address these friction points. The Studio is an open-source, no-code local interface designed to streamline…

The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction, creative collaborators, and reliable resources. For a group of MIT faculty working with and on…

Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages remain poorly represented in open corpora. A team of researchers from Google and other collaborators introduce WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset for African languages covering 24 languages,…