The Role of Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Generative AI Security and Red Teaming

[ad_1] Overview Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open, JSON-RPC–based standard that formalizes how AI clients (assistants, IDEs, web apps) connect to servers exposing three primitives—tools, resources, and prompts—over defined transports (primarily stdio for local and Streamable HTTP for remote). MCP’s value for security work is that it renders agent/tool interactions explicit and auditable, with…

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Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

[ad_1] In part 2 of our two-part series on generative artificial intelligence’s environmental impacts, MIT News explores some of the ways experts are working to reduce the technology’s carbon footprint. The energy demands of generative AI are expected to continue increasing dramatically over the next decade. For instance, an April 2025 report from the International Energy Agency…

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New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials

[ad_1] The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta have drawn on their training data to help researchers design tens of millions of new materials. But when it comes to designing materials…

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Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

[ad_1] With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the research team designed more than 36 million possible compounds and computationally screened them for antimicrobial properties. The top candidates they discovered are structurally distinct from…

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