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Anthropic announces expansion in Cambridge after ex-employee critsizes AI companies
Anthropic, the AI research and development company that produces the popular chatbot Claude, is deepening its roots in Cambridge. The San Francisco-based corporation announced on Tuesday that it will lease 24,000 square feet of office space at the One Kendall Square office complex for long-term use, according to a statement first obtained by The Boston […]
Local scientists air concerns about federal funding losses in Arlington town hall
Massachusetts scientists came together Tuesday evening at the Robbins Memorial Town Hall in Arlington to discuss their concerns about the Trump administration’s disruption of scientific research with U.S. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who recently won the Democratic primary to retain her seat as representative for the Massachusetts’ 5th Congressional District. Read more The CPL’s […]
MIT doctoral student wins $10,000 award for algorithm implemented by WeChat
An MIT doctoral student won a $10,000 award in August for developing a new approach to recommendation algorithms that has already been adopted by Tencent WeChat, where it helps determine what content is shown to more than a billion users. Read more Keep an eye, and ear, out for migrating nighthawks Lei Huang, 30, a […]
Five Cambridge and Somerville climate tech companies receive state tax incentive
Somerville’s Form Energy received the majority of a $6 million tax incentive for job creation granted to five climate tech innovation companies in Cambridge and Somerville. Read more MIT will reopen Building 18 Form, which produces high-capacity batteries used for storing renewable energy at utility scale, earlier this year was identified as the recipient of […]
MIT will reopen Building 18
MIT’s Emergency Management Department said it would reopen a building Monday Aug. 31 at 6 a.m., more than four days after closing it due to potential for poisoning by dimethyl mercury. Read more Simon’s says farewell, with hopes of reopening soon The Emergency Management Department issued a statement at 10:17 p.m. saying that “appropriate decontamination […]
MIT closes building after toxic incident
MIT evacuated a building Wednesday after a spill involving dimethyl mercury, an extremely potent neurotoxin. MIT’s Emergency Management department posted a message Saturday afternoon saying that a “single individual in a chemistry laboratory” went to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury. Read more Cambridge Day’s 2026 state election preview The […]
“Binge Thinking” aims to provide an antidote to doomscrolling
At the Aeronaut Brewery on a recent night in July, there wasn’t an empty table to be found as people greeted each other by the bar and then settled into chairs after walking carefully by the large projector screen at the center of the room. Read more New donut shop owner hopes we’ll all be […]
Cambridge sixth grader’s self-charging energy system up for award
Ahmed Abdelsalam was on a walk when inspiration struck that would ultimately turn him from an ordinary Cambridge sixth grader into a state-recognized scientist. He was thinking about the energy it takes to propel his body throughout a walk, and remembered from science class that energy cannot be created or destroyed (the First Law of […]
MIT’s Fab Lab marks 25 years of making almost anything
The Fab Lab, MIT’s digital fabrication laboratory, is turning 25 this week, and its founder said he did “not remotely” expect the extent of the lab’s impact. “What I didn’t see is it fundamentally changes how society and economy works,” said Neil Gershenfeld, an MIT professor and director of the Center of Bits and Atoms. […]
Immersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate
Coming to a city hall near us: the theater of today’s politics is pausing for the theater of the past. The new play “No Recombination Without Representation” will bring to life the 1976 public hearing that debated the safety of DNA recombination research at Harvard University. Throughout June, six performances will take place in Sullivan […]