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Research scientist Ranjan Pal and co-author wrote: "While the use of LLMs comes with a plethora of management (and technological) benefits for pharma supply chains, its use is loaded with many cyber vulnerabilities that can impact training data and models in a manner that leads to biased and erroneous outputs, cybersecurity/privacy breaches, and industry system failures."

Jennifer Graham, senior associate director, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, recommends that students start thinking about how they can connect the dots between their current experience and their future climate career interests. "Now is a great time to learn how your skills, whether in finance, operations, policy, or tech, can translate into the work being done to solve the climate crisis," she said.

"By having the AI model underlying the chatbot constantly trawling the web for the latest misleading claims and updating chatbot scenarios regularly, we can help clinicians recognize and respond to the kinds of misinformation circulating now," wrote professor David Rand and co-authors.

According to a study by professor Arnold Barnett and co-author, aviation safety is dramatically better now than even in the last decade. The chance of dying from air travel has consistently dropped by about 7% annually and continues to go down every decade. The study used data from the Flight Safety Foundation, the World Bank, and the International Air Transport Association.

Professor Roberto Rigobon and postdoctoral researcher Isabella Loaiza co-authored a study examining the shift in jobs and tasks across the U.S. economy between 2016 and 2024. Rather than dispense with qualities like critical thinking and empathy, workplace technology heightened the need for workers who exhibit those attributes, Loaiza said.

Professor Yasheng Huang said that if he had to highlight one fundamental difference between China and other civilisations, it would be the existence of imperial examinations. They are directly to blame for the state's ongoing monopolisation of human talent in China. By depriving society of access to the best talent, the state also denied its people the chance of having any kind of organised religion, commerce or intelligentsia.

The GENIUS act stands for "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025." If the legislation passes, it could usher in mainstream adoption of stablecoins for digital payments and spur growth in the stablecoin industry, said research scientist Christian Catalini. He added that traditional Wall Street firms and startups would also compete to offer stablecoins.

With new reports suggesting that the U.S. economy will probably slow this year, economists and AI experts say more businesses may speed up AI use to cut costs, generate revenue and boost worker productivity. That could lead to more-rapid adoption but also downsides, including job losses and consumer harms. "Economic downturns spur you to do more," said professor Eric So. "There's a lot of focus on what we can do and not enough questions like 'Should we do that?' and 'Is it being done in a safe way?'"

"Congress is poised to pass a reconciliation bill, politically dubbed the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill,' that could do serious harm to America's economic future," wrote senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen. "If enacted, the bill would not only deepen the country's long-term debt burden but also heighten the risk of a self-reinforcing cycle of higher interest rates and slower economic growth."

Will this be another summer of protest for Market Basket employees and customers? Don't count on it, Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan said. "It would be hard to envision a mass protest because this does come across as a family feud over succession," Kochan observed. "It's too abstract. It's too much an internal dispute that I don't think would resonate."