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Design insights from studying the Van Gogh Museum
Museum layout shapes visitor engagement, according to new research.
How to boost pro-worker AI in your company
As AI capabilities advance, the window for shaping whether the technology augments or replaces workers is narrowing. Decision makers need to step up, MIT researchers say.
4 takeaways for finance teams as they implement AI
Creativity and clean data are at the core of successful artificial intelligence implementations, according to the CFOs of Shopify and Arm Holdings.
How to bake cyber resilience into your startup culture
This excerpt from “Unlikely Entrepreneurs” explains how small to medium-sized businesses are often viewed by cybercriminals as vectors to infect the systems of larger, harder-to-access companies.
Why Agile is a poor fit for the platform marketplace
Agile was supposed to revolutionize how companies operate, but it’s fundamentally mismatched with the complex world of platform markets, says digital economy specialist Georg Rilinger.
The rise of smaller ‘meek models’ could democratize AI systems
AI systems built or run with limited resources could soon perform on par with leading larger models while costing much less, according to new research.
8 MIT startups to watch in 2026
MIT Startup Exchange supports MIT-connected ventures as they explore and assess new technologies. Here are eight companies that were featured in its recent Virtual Demo Day.
Looking ahead at AI and work in 2026
Experts in artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan are keeping an eye on the human-LLM accuracy gap, AI guardrails, and other trends.
Why aren’t AI open models more widely used?
Open-source and open-weight AI models perform well and cost less — but users opt for closed models 80% of the time, according to new research.
How digital business models are evolving in the age of agentic AI
As businesses adopt AI, they need to rethink how they make money. Understanding these four new business models is a place to start.