New AI tool predicts airport traffic to avert devastating collisions
In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. A group from the CMU Robotics...
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Memristor chip merges memory and computing, cutting AI power use by more than half
With a simple click, your hastily taken photo sharpens, a garbled voice message turns into...
ChatGPT has a goblin problem. It’s bigger than an AI quirk
Starting sometime in November, people who used ChatGPT began noticing some peculiar behavior: the AI...
IMF warns of ‘inevitable’ AI-powered threats to global financial system
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday of the risks to global financial stability...
The AI scientist: Now academic papers can be fully automated, what does this mean for the future of research?
Until recently, AI's role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize...
Inspired by the brain, researchers build smarter and more efficient computer hardware
As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and artificial intelligence demands more energy than...
AI use surges globally but rich-poor divide widens, Microsoft says
Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world's working-age population, but the...
Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No—but it’s not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us
In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may...
Your conversations with AI may not be as private as you think
A study conducted by researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute has revealed that ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude...
Data centers are growing in Texas, but big questions remain about water use
Data centers could potentially account for 3% to 9% of Texas' water use by 2040,...
Musk’s SpaceX strikes data center deal with Anthropic
AI startup Anthropic announced Wednesday it has agreed to a major computing partnership with Elon...
White House wants to vet powerful AI models for risks—a computer scientist explains why AI safety is so difficult
The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government...
AI training method helps robots carry lab-learned skills into real-world tasks
Robots are trained for specific tasks, such as cutting, using simulation. However, collecting real-world data...
Stress-testing method for cloud computing algorithms helps avoid network failures
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a more user-friendly and efficient method to help...
The rapid embrace of AI in China, its biggest testing ground, may shape how AI is used globally
On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile...
US to assess new AI models before their release
The US government on Tuesday announced in a policy shift that it will have access...
This AI can read rivers almost anywhere in America, and utilities are paying close attention
Hydrology experts at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) used...
AI galaxy hunters could be adding to the global GPU crunch
NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in...
When AI can’t count—and what researchers are doing about it
Today, artificial intelligence can describe images, recognize objects, and explain complex relationships. The pace of...
Wind energy and scenic landscapes: Balancing beauty and power through better planning
Wind turbines supply a particularly large amount of electricity in winter—precisely when demand is high....
Beyond borders: Metaverse manufacturing envisions AI-linked local production built on digital twins
Over the past decades, technological advances have fueled great innovation in a wide range of...
A simple physics-inspired model sheds light on how AI learns
Artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks—such as ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek or Gemini—are extraordinarily powerful,...
Mythos AI is a cybersecurity threat, but it doesn’t rewrite the rules of the game
The cybersecurity community went on alert when Anthropic announced on April 7, 2026, that its...
AI fails to make inroads with cybercriminals, study finds
Cybercriminals have been struggling to adopt AI in their work, reports the first-of-its-kind study that...