Dazzling Chinese AI debuts mask growing pains
Investor confidence in Chinese AI startups is riding high, but obstacles to their long-term success...
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Machine learning lends a helping ‘hand’ to prosthetics
Holding an egg requires a gentle touch. Squeeze too hard, and you'll make a mess....
Findings on phonetic reduction in speech could help make AI voices more natural-sounding
A speech study by a research team from The University of Texas at El Paso...
AI system with smart eyes detects welding defects
Örebro researchers Rajesh Patil and Professor Magnus Löfstrand have developed an AI system that detects...
AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assess long-term decision-making
Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, are learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. The reason? Simulating...
The next generation of driverless cars will have to think about what’s on the road, not just see it
Autonomous vehicles have made remarkable progress over the past decade. Driverless cars and buses that...
Sexualized deepfakes on X are a sign of things to come. NZ law is already way behind
Elon Musk finally responded last week to widespread outrage about his social media platform X...
Inside China’s buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock
Before DeepSeek shook up the tech world and put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map,...
Will Google be ‘third time lucky’ with new, AI-powered smart glasses?
It has been over a decade since Google Glass smart glasses were announced in 2013,...
AI can make the dead talk—why this doesn’t comfort us
For as long as humans have buried their dead, they've dreamed of keeping them close....
Benchmarking framework reveals major safety risks of using AI in lab experiments
While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting...
4 in 5 small businesses had cyberscams in 2025 and almost half of attacks were AI powered
One more reason things cost more today: cybercrime.
New memristor training method slashes AI energy use by six orders of magnitude
In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU)...
ChatGPT’s free ride is ending: Here’s what OpenAI plans for advertising on the chatbot
OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren't paying for...
OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT
OpenAI announced Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as...
Using causal AI to amplify sustainability in the textile industry
With the textile industry facing mounting scrutiny over the environmental impacts of fast fashion, two...
World-first social media wargame reveals how AI bots can swing elections
On December 14, 2025, a terrorist attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving...
What you need to know about Grok and the controversies surrounding it
Elon Musk's Grok keeps getting into trouble, and this time, more of the world's governments...
First-ever dataset to improve English-to-Malayalam machine translation fills critical gap for low-resource languages
The world's first dataset aimed at improving the quality of English-to-Malayalam machine translation—a long-overlooked language...
New legal framework clarifies liability for AI-generated child abuse images
A short, seemingly harmless command is all it takes to use Elon Musk's chatbot Grok...
Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?
Cut the words "please" and "thank you" from your next ChatGPT query and, if you...
Free tool can reduce harmful engagement with AI-generated explicit images
A new evidence-based online educational tool aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of...
Wikipedia at 25: Can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?
Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The...
Forensic system cuts IoT attack analysis time by three-quarters
A new forensic framework designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) is discussed in...