SoftBank is not confirmed to be in acquisition talks with Gravis Robotics, despite the Zurich startup being a strategic fit for SoftBank's growing robotics portfolio. SoftBank has already agreed to bu…
Swiss AI released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, extending its 8B and 70B open-source models with native image understanding, a thinking mode, a 262,144-token context window (four times longer than Ape…
ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, the latest version of Switzerland's fully open language model that can now understand images…
ETH Zurich spin-off goNEON has secured CHF150,000 (approximately EUR160,000) from Venture Kick to develop an agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. CEO Raphael Eder and CTO Dr Lukas Ballo pl…
A developer argues that while AI coding agents are heavily tooled with linters, CI, and memory stores, the human operator's own workflow remains largely unharnessed, relying on markdown files and hono…
Researchers from Stanford University, ETH Zurich, and other institutions introduced OpenTSLM, a family of time-series language models that process raw multivariate signals alongside text, outperformin…
Researchers at ETH Zurich and EPFL have built a prototype particle detector called PLATON that uses a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI to reconstruct particle paths in 3D fr…
Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 will take place on 7-8 November 2026 at ETH Zurich, expanding from a one-day event in 2025 to a full weekend. The 2025 Zurich AI Safety Day drew 200+ participants from across…
A growing body of research reveals that while the global AI ethics landscape has converged around a stable set of principles—transparency, fairness, non-maleficence, accountability, and privacy—enforc…
The Swiss National AI Initiative and the Apertus team announced that their technical report on the Apertus v1 large language model has been accepted for presentation at the ACL 2026 Main Conference, a…
Nvidia is hiring for over 12 robotics and AI positions in China, focusing on its Omniverse platform and humanoid robotics, despite US export tensions. The company partnered with Unitree Robotics in Ju…
Researchers at ETH Zurich developed a light-responsive molecular switch that targets the glucocorticoid receptor to reverse dormancy in non-small-cell lung cancer cells, potentially reducing relapse r…
A new benchmark, dspy-security-bench, reveals that DSPy prompt optimization degrades adversarial robustness against harder prompt-injection attacks. Testing with AgentDojo's attack suite, optimizers l…
Researchers at ETH Zurich argue in a new ICML 2026 position paper that AI safety studies on anthropomorphic behaviors like deception and scheming lack rigorous evidence, risking misallocated resources…
China's 360 Security Technology launched two AI-driven cybersecurity tools, Tulongfeng and Yitianzhen, to rival Anthropic's Claude Mythos system. The tools aim to match Mythos's capabilities in automa…
The Swiss AI Initiative released Apertus Mini on June 15, a set of 16 smaller language models distilled from the open-source Apertus foundation model, designed for local deployment on constrained hard…
Switzerland's Swiss AI Initiative launched Apertus, a fully open-source large language model with complete transparency in training data, code, and alignment methods, designed for sovereign deployment…
The Swiss AI Initiative, a collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS, released Apertus Mini, a set of 16 small language models demonstrating distillation and quantization techniques. The open-s…
Fig0, an AI-powered scientific figure generator, launched to help researchers create publication-ready vector illustrations from text, sketches, or PDFs with zero manual drawing. The tool, trusted by …
Sonar reports that AI agents generate bloated, unmaintainable code, citing a Carnegie Mellon study of 807 open-source projects using Cursor that found a 30% rise in static analysis warnings and 41% in…