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Hasbro, the toymaker behind G.I. Joe, My Little Pony and Monopoly, is relocating to Boston's Seaport after more than 100 years in Rhode Island.

Under the second Trump administration, Massachusetts scientists have lost billions in funding, and curtailed more than a dozen clinical trials in the state. Ahead of the midterms, many scientists hope a new Congress will restore stability to federal support and get grant money out the door.

The number of universities nationwide offering an AI undergraduate major in a computing department now exceeds 100, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University researchers. Massachusetts institutions are part of the growth.

MIT Media Lab composer Tod Machover’s “already and not yet” puts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in dialogue with a live AI system that responds to each musician's performance. Even players wary of AI say this one leaves the music in human hands.

In much of the country, the AI boom is driving the construction of hyperscale data centers. Not so much in New England. But change is coming. Here's how some in the region are preparing.

Families can stay at the home for one week for free, with no agenda.

Towns and cities across the region are using tools of local control to slow or stop data center development within their borders.

Low, 67, plans to stay on the job until the end of June 2027 and announced the decision in an email to staff Tuesday. She will join WBUR’s Board of Directors the following fall.

With just a few thousand members, the Sikh community in Massachusetts is small compared to other parts of the country. To preserve culture amid the forces of assimilation — and the pressures to conform within Sikh culture — can be a real challenge.

Popular chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are powered by models trained on enormous amounts of information, which means spending billions on vast data centers that take more power and water than entire cities. Instead, roboticists like Matthias Scheutz are thinking small. They’re designing AI systems compact enough to fit on a single computer chip.

Physician Raj Panjabi joined WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how meeting people where they are can help improve medical outcomes.

WBUR senior reporter Gin Dumcius joins Morning Edition to explain why Oliver will still appear on ballots in November.

Experts keeping an eye on this tumultuous moment for data centers argue that for many people, the facilities represent something greater than their material impacts. They are a proxy for fears about the industry that’s driving this boom in development: artificial intelligence.

The high-profile sexual assault case at Cornell University exposes, Harvard undergraduate Yona Sperling-Milner argues in her college's student newspaper, the inadequacy of consent as a threshold for ethical sex.

The proposal could mandate independent evaluations of the companies' AI models and safety protocols.

Gov. Maura Healey and challenger Mike Minogue shared a stage but little else Thursday, as the Democrat and Republican savaged each other's positions during their last debate before Election Day.

Frederick Richard, the 22-year-old Olympic gymnast from Stoughton, spoke with WBUR about what the upcoming World Championships mean for him, learning gymnastics in Massachusetts and what changes he hopes to see in the gymnastics world.

Mitch Ryerson, a woodworker, uses his talents to make playgrounds for kids and wooden benches for his community. A new exhibit open now in Cambridge called "Joyful Anarchy" shows his process and what he's designed. Ryerson shares more about his career in play and what it has meant to the communities he designs for.

The MBTA and Boston city officials are advancing a controversial project that would install a center-running bus lane on a portion of Blue Hill Ave, but many community members are apprehensive about the plan.