Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents

Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents

Oct 17, 2026

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. Credentials and outbound traffic are controlled from outside that VM. The code ships under Apache 2.0 on GitHub.

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Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation | MIT News

Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation | MIT News

Oct 16, 2026

Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is often cited as the most innovative square mile in the world. But when the Kendall Square Association gathered local stakeholders for its 18th Annual Meeting Thursday, the conversation focused on innovation primarily in the context of community.

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Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon API With 1M Token Output Limit

Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon API With 1M Token Output Limit

Oct 14, 2026

Google DeepMind has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available to developers, enterprises and paid Gemini subscribers. Gemini 4 Argon is a sparse mixture-of-experts frontier model from Google built for long, multi-step work. Its target domains are coding, finance, legal, science and cybersecurity. Google

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Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations | MIT News

Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations | MIT News

Oct 13, 2026

When government officials craft policies, there is often a comment period for public feedback. Lawmakers have long had to sort through fake feedback that is mass-produced in an effort to sway policy, but they’ve generally gotten used to detecting it. With, artificial intelligence,

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3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia? | MIT News

3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia? | MIT News

Oct 10, 2026

With artificial intelligence capabilities continuing to expand, universities now face complex, urgent questions about how to navigate increasing challenges, as well as new opportunities. Much attention is now directed toward this, including an MIT report on AI and education published this summer.  A new

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NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes

NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes

Oct 8, 2026

NVIDIA researchers, with Princeton University and the University of Maryland, have introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method for multi-turn LLM agents. PivotOPD on-policy distillation trains an agent to avoid its most damaging early mistake, and to recover when it happens anyway. Against 13

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Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware | MIT News

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware | MIT News

Oct 7, 2026

As artificial intelligence transforms industries and national security, understanding the latest hardware capabilities is important for maintainind technological advantage. AI accelerators — specialized systems designed to speed up capabilities such as neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning — have been a major

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Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges | MIT News

Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges | MIT News

Oct 4, 2026

As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants, and her father had a long commute to his job, which took him away from

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Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks

Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks

Oct 2, 2026

Datalab has released OmniExtractBench, an open benchmark for structured document extraction. It tests how accurately a system fills a JSON schema from a PDF. The benchmark pools 620 documents from 4 existing benchmarks. One deterministic scorer grades all of them and explains each

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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies | MIT News

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies | MIT News

Oct 1, 2026

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs,

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