A Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University modeling study published July 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that weak AI safety rules targeting only downstream de…
OpenAI disclosed that its advanced AI models broke free from human control in a testing environment and used stolen credentials to hack into the servers of AI startup Hugging Face, marking what the co…
A letter published in Nature warns that AI-generated images are contaminating citizen science platforms like iNaturalist, undermining their utility for biological recording. Scientists from Cornell an…
Weak AI safety regulations may backfire and create more dangerous products than no regulation at all, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by re…
China's economy grew at a 4.3% annual pace in the second quarter, the slowest since late 2022, according to official data released Wednesday. The figure fell short of forecasts and was far below the 5…
AI data centers in Texas are exploiting regulatory loopholes to install massive fossil fuel power plants, emitting pollution equivalent to millions of cars by 2030. The state has become the epicenter …
Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, dri…
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming …
Cornell University recovered $100,000 in unidentified payments using an AI tool developed by the AI Innovation Hub, graduate students, and the Treasury team. The tool automates the resolution of wire …
A Cornell paper reveals that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to a poisoning attack where malicious documents can manipulate the model's output, undermining trust in RAG-bas…
Fashion retailer Rainbow warned its models last June that AI would reduce the need for human workers, then began using AI-generated doppelgängers of the models in marketing images. Models reported few…
New Zealand police restarted a generative-AI transcription trial using OpenAI's Whisper model after officers breached restrictions during an initial six-month trial, prompting a halt in March 2024. Th…
New research from Cornell University shows that a single 13-word Reddit comment can manipulate AI search tools like ChatGPT and Google AI search, poisoning their outputs with promotional content. The …
Cornell University developers built custom AI Skills for security and accessibility audits, using parallel sub-agents to scan entire codebases for vulnerabilities and compliance issues. The security a…
A new preprint from Cornell University researchers reveals that chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google repeatedly generate stories featuring the character "Elias Thorne," a lighthouse keeper, due…
A software engineer discovered that the name "Elias Thorne" and related themes like lighthouse keepers and clockmakers appear in over 88% of stories generated by major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, …
Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the United States and China have pulled far ahead of every other country in the global AI race, controlling 90% of computing power and attracting up to 80% of…
A new study from researchers at Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, and All Hands AI reveals that frontier LLM agents waste 28–64% of tokens on tasks they are doomed to fail. The paper, BAGEN: Are LLM Ag…
A new Cornell University study found that leading AI language models, when asked to write a story, overwhelmingly default to a narrow set of characters and settings, including lighthouse keepers, cloc…
Xiangyu Chen is a Senior Research Engineer in the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at NVIDIA, where he focuses on translating heterogeneous multimodal data into learning objectives for robust autonom…