To explain or not? Online dating experiment shows need for AI transparency depends on user expectation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a "black box," with its logic obscured from...
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Why AI has not led to mass unemployment
People have become used to living with AI fairly quickly. ChatGPT is barely three years...
Using AI to understand how emotions are formed
Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us...
The EU’s new AI rulebook will affect businesses and consumers in the UK, too
For the UK after Brexit, it is tempting to imagine that regulation no longer comes...
Microsoft CEO warns AI needs to spread beyond Big Tech to avoid bubble
As tech companies spend billions on artificial intelligence data centers and computer chips, fears of...
Dazzling Chinese AI debuts mask growing pains
Investor confidence in Chinese AI startups is riding high, but obstacles to their long-term success...
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...