Can AI’s climate benefits outweigh its costs?
The rising energy demands of AI and data centers threaten corporate net zero commitments and worsen climate change. But can AI also help develop climate solutions? MIT Sloan researchers investigate.
Three keys to building a semantic layer
A new research briefing explains how semantic layers make enterprise data more accessible and understandable by humans and machines.
How will AI automation hit — like a crashing wave or a rising tide?
AI performance is improving across many workplace tasks broadly, not in sudden shocks, new MIT research finds. That cadence gives companies and workers time to prepare for task-level displacements.
6 questions to guide your AI strategy
Few AI pilots scale successfully. Asking key questions about goals, governance, and culture can help them thrive.
Why AI-driven enterprises are the future of entrepreneurship
AIDEs have lower overhead, are extremely efficient at product development, require a smaller footprint, and provide increased ownership for founders, according to MIT Sloan’s Paul Cheek.
How organizations can capture value from digital colleagues
As AI systems become more capable, companies will need to think beyond individual tools and begin managing AI as a digital colleague — part of how teams, workflows, and business processes operate.
N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version. N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform
Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code
Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face’s Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to security risk. “These vulnerabilities are bypassing trust_remote_code, the safeguard designed to stop unreviewed code from running in the
This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever
A German engineer wanted a cheaper cigarette. The popular crooner Bing Crosby wanted a vacation. Satisfying both desires inadvertently led to the invention of the laugh track. Along the way there were Nazis, spoils of war, and more than one accidental encounter. Tying together this quirky history is the Magnetophon. What Was the Magnetophon? The Magnetophon was a high-fidelity reel-to-reel…