Machine learning & AI

Creating a 3D interactive digital room from simple video

Cornell researchers have developed an AI-powered process that automatically transforms a short video of a room into an interactive, 3D simulation of the space.

30/06/2025 20:59

Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely

Diffusion models like OpenAI's DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to generate an image, create a video, or refine a blueprint, and come back with ideas they hadn't considered before.

30/06/2025 20:59

Brain-computer interface robotic hand control reaches new finger-level milestone

Robotic systems have the potential to greatly enhance daily living for the over one billion individuals worldwide who experience some form of disability. Brain-computer interfaces or BCIs present a compelling option by enabling direct communication between the brain and external devices, bypassing traditional muscle-based control.

30/06/2025 20:43

Meta spending big on AI talent but will it pay off?

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions of dollars for top talent to make up ground in the generative artificial intelligence race, sparking doubt about the wisdom of the spree.

30/06/2025 18:46

Why human empathy still matters in the age of AI

A new international study finds that people place greater emotional value on empathy they believe comes from humans—even when the exact same response is generated by artificial intelligence.

30/06/2025 18:00

The rise of 'artificial historians': AI as humanity's record-keeper

In documenting and recording society's collective data on an unprecedented scale, artificial intelligence is becoming humanity's historian—changing the way we record information for posterity.

30/06/2025 17:42

AI vision language models provide video descriptions for blind users

For people who are blind or have low vision, the audio descriptions of action in movies and TV shows are essential to understanding what is happening. Networks and streaming services hire professionals to create audio descriptions, but that's not the case for billions of YouTube and TikTok videos.

30/06/2025 17:16

Five surprising facts about AI chatbots that can help you make better use of them

AI chatbots have already become embedded into some people's lives, but how many really know how they work? Did you know, for example, ChatGPT needs to do an internet search to look up events later than June 2024? Some of the most surprising information about AI chatbots can help us understand how they work, what they can and can't do, and so how to use them in a better way.

30/06/2025 16:56

Federal judge denies OpenAI bid to keep deleting data amid newspaper copyright lawsuit

A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets, including the Daily News, suing the technology giant, accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement.

30/06/2025 15:30

How AI is revolutionizing ATL's international terminal

For a U.S. citizen arriving in Atlanta these days, there's a world in which you might not even need to pull out your passport.

30/06/2025 15:10

Reinforcement learning for nuclear microreactor control

A machine learning approach leverages nuclear microreactor symmetry to reduce training time when modeling power output adjustments, according to a study led by University of Michigan researchers, published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X.

30/06/2025 14:57

China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts

While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any athletic prowess shown.

29/06/2025 20:07

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators

The world's most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors—lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.

29/06/2025 20:02

Q&A: When talking about AI, definitions matter

Artificial intelligence is everywhere lately—on the news, in podcasts and around every water cooler. A new, buzzy term, artificial general intelligence (AGI), is dominating conversations and raising more questions than it answers.

27/06/2025 18:53

Hide and seek: Uncovering new ways to detect vault apps on smartphones

Researchers have discovered a modern solution to detect vault applications (apps) on smartphones, which could be a game-changer for law enforcement. The paper is published in the journal Future Internet.

27/06/2025 18:44

New method can teach AI to admit uncertainty

In high-stakes situations like health care—or weeknight "Jeopardy!"—it can be safer to say "I don't know" than to answer incorrectly. Doctors, game show contestants, and standardized test-takers understand this, but most artificial intelligence applications still prefer to give a potentially wrong answer rather than admit uncertainty.

26/06/2025 21:42

AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea

When teaching a Photoshop class at a children's summer camp, Stevens undergraduate student Gursimran Vasir noticed something strange.

26/06/2025 21:27

Can academics use AI to write journal papers? What the guidelines say

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to "intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt based on sets of rules and environments which mimic human intelligence." This field is evolving rapidly and the education sector, for one, is abuzz with discussion on AI use for writing.

26/06/2025 19:13

Interactive virtual companion to accelerate discoveries at scientific user facilities

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have dreamed up, developed, and tested a novel voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to break down everyday barriers for busy scientists.

26/06/2025 15:05

Engineers create first AI model specialized for chip design language

Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering have created VeriGen, the first specialized artificial intelligence model successfully trained to generate Verilog code, the programming language that describes how a chip's circuitry functions.

26/06/2025 14:14

AI models shrink to fit tiny devices, enabling smarter IoT sensors

Artificial intelligence is considered to be computationally and energy-intensive—a challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), where small, embedded sensors have to make do with limited computing power, little memory and small batteries.

26/06/2025 13:55

Machine learning methods are best suited to catch liars, according to science of deception detection

Scientists have revealed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a type of deep learning algorithm, demonstrate superior performance compared to conventional non-machine learning approaches when used to detect lies and deception.

26/06/2025 13:47

Google debuts Gemini AI coding tool in bid to entice developers

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding an artificial intelligence coding assistant to ease the work of developers, aiming to catch up with rival products such as OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code.

26/06/2025 13:28

US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright case

A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission.

26/06/2025 11:50

Mattel and OpenAI have partnered up. Here's why parents should be concerned about AI in toys

Mattel may seem like an unchanging, old-school brand. Most of us are familiar with it—be it through Barbie, Fisher-Price, Thomas & Friends, Uno, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, MEGA or Polly Pocket.

25/06/2025 22:31

How AI models successfully detect personality traits from written text

A research team at the University of Barcelona (UB) has shown how artificial intelligence (AI) models can detect personality traits from written texts, and for the first time has managed to analyze in detail how these systems make decisions. These results, published in the journal PLOS One, open up new perspectives for understanding how personality manifests itself in natural language and also how more transparent and reliable automatic detection tools can be built.

25/06/2025 18:46

Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetize, coerce and control, study suggests

New research has underlined the surprising extent to which pervasive surveillance of people and their habits is powered by computer vision research—and shone a spotlight on how vulnerable individuals and communities are at risk.

25/06/2025 18:00

Multimodal LLMs and the human brain create object representations in similar ways, study finds

A better understanding of how the human brain represents objects that exist in nature, such as rocks, plants, animals, and so on, could have interesting implications for research in various fields, including psychology, neuroscience and computer science. Specifically, it could help shed new light on how humans interpret sensory information and complete different real-world tasks, which could also inform the development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that closely emulate biological and mental processes.

25/06/2025 13:50

Grok shows 'flaws' in fact-checking Israel-Iran war: study

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok produced inaccurate and contradictory responses when users sought to fact-check the Israel-Iran conflict, a study said Tuesday, raising fresh doubts about its reliability as a debunking tool.

25/06/2025 11:30

US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AI

A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment.

24/06/2025 23:03