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How Is AI Shaping This Year's Midterms?

October 27, 2026

We open with an AI News Panel, focused specifically on AI’s impact this election. Misinformation, AI voting support & more. We’ll hear from Boston Globe reporter Aaron Pressman, MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky, and Kate Gage from the Cooperative Lab Project.

Computer chips power so much of the technology we rely on, but do any of us understand how they actually work? Edgar ventures to learn, with help from MIT professor Suraj Cheema.

We’re reflecting on the – still ongoing – life and legacy of Marty, that googly-eyed robot patrolling the aisles of Stop & Shop looking…

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