World champion martial artist Noelle Kanaga DeLuca ’06 started karate when she was just four years old — and hated it. This summer, she earned 12 medals in national and international karate competitions.

Via @MITstudents on X: “Moon river… MIT sailing held their traditional moonlight sail on the Charles River last night at sunset -- under the full Harvest Moon.”

LLMs make inconsistent decisions about calling the police when analyzing home surveillance videos, a study shows. The “move-fast, break-things” practice of widely deploying generative AI models “deserves much more thought since it could be quite harmful,” Ashia Wilson says.

Leaders of MIT’s Climate Project joined community members at a forum, kicking off the Institute’s new effort to accelerate and scale up climate change solutions. “The Climate Project is a whole-of-MIT mobilization,” President Sally Kornbluth said.

For Afarin Bellisario ScD ’80, SM ’90, an engineering background and work with MIT inspired her to write about how tech and modernization changes people and nations. “The technology we develop has to do something good for people,” she says.

Via @mit_cheme on Instagram: “Classes are back in full swing again, great seeing everyone back #AroundMIT for WildPops”