Creating AI that matters How the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is shaping AI-sociotechnical systems for the future.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/crea....ting-ai-that-matters

New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items To reduce waste, the Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress. Each component of these pieces can be replaced, rearranged, or restyled.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/refa....shion-software-desig

Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects After being trained with this technique, vision-language models can better identify a unique item in a new scene.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/meth....od-teaches-generativ

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool Acting as a “virtual spectrometer,” SpectroGen generates spectroscopic data in any modality, such as X-ray or infrared, to quickly assess a material’s quality.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/chec....king-quality-materia

Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code Co-founded by an MIT alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/help....ing-scientists-run-c