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Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has been kidnapped, so you embark on a quest to rescue her, venturing through stretches of pipe-filled and monster-­ridden terrain where your only means…

Brian Sietsema has a favorite word. It’s somewhat surprising that he can choose just one. He’s the person spellers rely on to confirm pronunciations and answer questions about the roots of the words they’re given at the Scripps National Spelling Bee—arguably the world’s most prestigious competition of its kind. The story of how the word…

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll be glad to know that MIT is also working on a deeply important but comparatively old-fashioned challenge: American high school students’ startlingly uneven access…

With an adaptable fastener designed at CSAIL, pitching a tent or adjusting the cast for a broken bone could be almost as easy as zipping your coat. The researchers, led by associate professor Stefanie Mueller, were inspired by an abandoned prototype for a three-sided zipper that William Freeman, PhD ’92 (now an MIT professor), patented…

A technology developed by Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, SM ’93, PhD ’97, and colleagues could offer new hope to the thousands of Americans with chronic liver disease who are waiting for an organ transplant or not strong enough to tolerate one. The liver is involved in regulating blood clotting, removing bacteria from the bloodstream, metabolizing drugs,…

MIT engineers have found the first direct evidence that plant seeds can sense sounds in nature: Rice submerged in shallow water germinated 30% to 40% more quickly when exposed to vibrations from water dripping on the surface. They think other types of seeds may respond similarly. When a raindrop hits a puddle’s surface or the…

The best robot vacuums are the ones you barely have to think about, and the Roborock Saros 20 fits that description well. It’s why it’s one of our favorite robovac / mop hybrids, and thanks to Prime Day, you can get it on sale at Amazon and Roborock for $1,359.99 ($240 off), a new low […]

In Mexico, WhatsApp isn't a channel — it's the channel. It's where customers ask for prices, book appointments, and decide whether to buy from you or from the competitor who answered faster. And that last part is the problem: most small and medium businesses lose customers simply because nobody replied in time — after hours, during a rush, or while the owner was busy doing the actual work. At Proxxa , the AI automation agency I run in Mexico City, this is the single most common pain we solve. So I want to walk through how I built a production-grade WhatsApp AI assistant that answers, qualifies, and books 24/7 — using Claude and n8n, with no third-party chatbot platform in the middle. Why the WhatsApp Cloud API directly (no BSP) A lot of guides will tell you that you need a BSP (Business Solution Provider) to use the WhatsApp Business API. You don't. Meta's Cloud API is hosted by Meta itself and you can build on it directly. Skipping the BSP means no per-seat middleman tax, full control over the logic, and the client owns their own number and data. The stack n8n (self-hosted on a small VPS via Docker) as the orchestration layer. Claude (Haiku) as the intelligence layer — fast and cheap enough to answer every message. Postgres for conversation memory, a knowledge base, and a lightweight CRM. WhatsApp Cloud API for the messaging. Gemini for transcribing voice notes. The pattern that made it powerful: meta-blocks Instead of bolting on a separate "agent framework," I let Claude emit small structured blocks inside its answer, which a parsing node extracts and strips before sending — to schedule an appointment, escalate to a human, capture a lead, or generate a payment link. The user only ever sees clean text; the system reacts to the blocks. This kept the whole thing debuggable and predictable. With that pattern, the assistant handles eleven capabilities: natural-language conversation, per-customer memory, Google Calendar booking, vision (it reads a photo a customer sends

Yochai is a Socratic AI "chevruta" or learning guide, powered by a foundational library of 1,000+ primary sources from the Jewish canon, (and a knowledge graph of 2.5M entities, and 16M entity relationships, 375,000 searchable passages, and 17,000 canonical concepts that we developed around our own ontology). Yochai, uniquely, takes you directly to the sources and pushes you to discover and articulate your own insights about them. we open sourced our knowledge graph so others can build on our fo

Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.

The Xteink X4 and smaller X3 e-readers are discounted to $55.20 (regularly $69) and $63.20 (normally $79), respectively, as part of Amazon’s Prime Day promotions this week. Both e-readers are significantly smaller and more pocketable than any of the Kindle and Kobo models currently available, and feature magnetic mounts so they can be stuck to […]

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

There are three times of year that are best for buying a new TV: leading up to the Super Bowl, Black Friday, and of course now, during Amazon Prime Day. Many of the new 2026 models have been released, and while some will be seeing discounts, the majority of the best deals are going to […]

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.

Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside. In a reply on X, Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy says the driver "manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to […]