World Models (WMs) are a central framework for developing agents that reason and plan in a compact latent space. However, training these models directly from pixel data often leads to ‘representation collapse,’ where the model produces redundant embeddings to trivially satisfy prediction objectives. Current approaches attempt to prevent this by relying on complex heuristics:…

Artificial intelligence holds promise for helping doctors diagnose patients and personalize treatment options. However, an international group of scientists led by MIT cautions that AI systems, as currently designed, carry the risk of steering doctors in the wrong direction because they may overconfidently make incorrect decisions.One way to prevent these mistakes is to program…

The dream of recursive self-improvement in AI—where a system doesn’t just get better at a task, but gets better at learning—has long been the ‘holy grail’ of the field. While theoretical models like the Gödel Machine have existed for decades, they remained largely impractical in real-world settings. That changed with the Darwin Gödel Machine…

In the field of generative AI media, the industry is transitioning from purely probabilistic pixel synthesis toward models capable of structural reasoning. Luma Labs has just released Uni-1, a foundational image model designed to address the ‘intent gap” inherent in standard diffusion pipelines. By implementing a reasoning phase prior…

The sense of support and community was palpable when Sojun Park, a postdoc at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), delivered a recent presentation on The Global Diffusion of AI Technologies and Its Political Drivers. The event, part of the CIS Global Research and Policy Seminar, filled the venue with audience members from across MIT. “My…

import asyncio import json import io import contextlib import re from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import Callable, Awaitable import nest_asyncio nest_asyncio.apply() TOOL_DEFINITIONS = [ { “name”: “execute_code”, “description”: “Execute Python code in the Colab kernel. Returns stdout, results, or errors. State persists between calls.” “parameters”: { “type”: “object”, “properties”: { “code”: {“type”: “string”,…